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Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Douglas in Arizona


Earthquake location 31.2627S, -109.086WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Douglas in Arizona on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/10/19 / 2019-10-11 01:10:52 / October 11, 2019 @ 1:10 am. Exact location of earthquake, -109.086° West, 31.2627° North, depth 5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005t9y. Unique identifier: us70005t9y. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:10:52 / 6:10 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bisbee, Naco, Esqueda. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Agua Prieta (c. 68 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Douglas (c. 17 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Esqueda (c. 6 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Bisbee (c. 5 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Naco (c. 5 200 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 one 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 44 km ESE of Douglas, Arizona.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -109.086° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.2627° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km ESE of Douglas, Arizona Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-11 01:10:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-11 01:27:54 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 4.329 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 234 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 1.287 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us70005t9y Id of event.
Event Code 70005t9y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005t9y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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