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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Socorro in New Mexico


Earthquake location 34.0864S, -106.4342WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Socorro in New Mexico on Monday. Exact location, longitude -106.4342° West, latitude 34.0864° North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/07/20 / 2020-07-13 21:36:36 / July 13, 2020 @ 9:36 pm. Unique identifier: us7000amzu. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000amzu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 21:36:36 / 9:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Los Chavez, Belen, Socorro (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Belen (c. 7 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Los Chavez (c. 5 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 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: 42 km E of Socorro, New Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -106.4342° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.0864° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42 km E of Socorro, New Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-13 21:36:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-13 21:57:35 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 121 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 0.282 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us7000amzu Id of event.
Event Code 7000amzu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000amzu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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