Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 2 km NNW of Fuente Vaqueros, Spain

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Fuente Vaqueros in Spain. The temblor was picked up at 23:09:09 / 11:09 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 02/12/20 / 2020-12-02 23:09:09 / December 2, 2020 @ 11:09 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000cmba. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000cmba. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -3.7963 West, latitude 37.2424 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries, Spain (c. 46 506 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Málaga (c. 568 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Granada (c. 234 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Jaén (c. 116 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Vélez-Málaga (c. 74 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Motril (c. 60 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Montilla, Aguilar, Mengibar (min 5000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km NNW of Fuente Vaqueros, Spain. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-3.7963° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.2424° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km NNW of Fuente Vaqueros, Spain	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-02 23:09:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-02 23:32:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.6	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	179	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	2.082	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	110	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	us7000cmba	Id of event.
Event Code	7000cmba	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000cmba,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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