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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Seligman in Arizona


Earthquake location 35.3307S, -112.5913WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Seligman in Arizona. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000iz5k. Unique identifier: us2000iz5k. Exact location, longitude -112.5913° West, latitude 35.3307° North, depth = 5 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/12/18 / 2018-12-30 09:08:56 / December 30, 2018 @ 9:08 am. The temblor was detected at 02:08:56 / 2:08 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Chino Valley (c. 10 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Williamson (c. 5 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Paulden (c. 5 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Williamson, Chino Valley, Paulden (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 26 km E of Seligman, Arizona.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.5913° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.3307° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km E of Seligman, Arizona Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-30 09:08:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-30 10:32:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 reviewed 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 148 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.291 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us2000iz5k Id of event.
Event Code 2000iz5k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iz5k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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