Minor earthquake 3.7 mag, 55 km E of San Vicente, Mexico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from San Vicente in Mexico. All ids that are associated to the event: ci39347839, us6000bg07. Unique identifier: us6000bg07. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/08/20 / 2020-08-17 16:29:49 / August 17, 2020 @ 4:29 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -115.6716° West, 31.2672° North. The temblor was detected at 16:29:49 / 4:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from San Felipe (c. 15 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Vicente Guerrero (c. 12 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Camalú (c. 7 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Emiliano Zapata (c. 5 800 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from San Quintín (c. 5 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Felipe, San Quintín, Vicente Guerrero.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 55 km E of San Vicente, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.6716° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.2672° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55 km E of San Vicente, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-17 16:29:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-17 18:22:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.5	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	,ci,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	0.772	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	225	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000bg07	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bg07	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39347839,us6000bg07,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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