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Minor earthquake, 3.05 mag was detected near Alberto Oviedo Mota in B.C. in MX

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Alberto Oviedo Mota in B.C. in MX on Monday. The temblor was reported at 16:41:22 / 4:41 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 9.37 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/09/18 / 2018-09-18 00:41:22 / September 18, 2018 @ 12:41 am. Event id: ci38064007. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38064007. Exact location of earthquake, -115.2020035° West, 32.253334° North, depth 9.37 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yuma, Imperial, El Centro. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from San Luis Río Colorado (c. 139 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Yuma (c. 93 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 4 km NW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX.

Alberto Oviedo Mota B.C.Calexico El Centro Imperial Mexicali Mexico MX San Luis Río Colorado United States Yuma

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.05 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.2020035° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.253334° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km NW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-09-18 00:41:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-18 00:43:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	automatic	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	143	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ci	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ci,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1872	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	181	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ci38064007	Id of event.
Event Code	38064007	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38064007,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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