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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near San Vicente in Mexico


Earthquake location 31.4959S, -115.6198WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 62 km ENE of San Vicente, Mexico (39 miles) on Sunday. Id of earthquake: us6000nghz. Event ids that are associated: ci40673831, us6000nghz. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -115.6198 West, latitude 31.4959 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/07/24 / 2024-07-28 13:38:00 / July 28, 2024 @ 1:38 pm. The temblor was detected at 13:38:00 / 1:38 pm (local time epicenter).

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 two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 62 km ENE of San Vicente, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.6198° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.4959° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62 km ENE 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 2024-07-28 13:38:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-10 16:57:42 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 148 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.175 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us6000nghz Id of event.
Event Code 6000nghz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40673831,us6000nghz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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