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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Capulin in New Mexico


Earthquake location 36.2131S, -106.762WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Capulin in New Mexico on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.62 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us6000b6wi. Event ids that are associated: us6000b6wi. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/07/20 / 2020-07-30 15:04:11 / July 30, 2020 @ 3:04 pm. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:04:11 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 9.62 km, -106.762° West, 36.2131° North.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was White Rock, Española, Los Alamos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Los Alamos (c. 12 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Española (c. 10 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from White Rock (c. 5 700 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 4 km ESE of Capulin, New Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -106.762° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2131° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km ESE of Capulin, 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 2020-07-30 15:04:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-30 15:49:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.9 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 213 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 1.288 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000b6wi Id of event.
Event Code 6000b6wi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b6wi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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