Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Spain

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported Spain kilometers (0 miles) from Spain on Saturday. Event id: us70004l19. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004l19. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:12:18 / 9:12 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/07/19 / 2019-07-13 21:12:18 / July 13, 2019 @ 9:12 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -0.9199° West, latitude 38.0559° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Villajoyosa, Cehegín, Caudete (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from Murcia (c. 436 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Alicante (c. 334 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Elche (c. 230 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Cartagena (c. 212 000 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Torrevieja (c. 101 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Spain (c. 46 506 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Spain.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-0.9199° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.0559° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Spain	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-13 21:12:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-15 22:46:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	138	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	0.472	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	124	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70004l19	Id of event.
Event Code	70004l19	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70004l19,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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