Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Agres in Spain

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Agres in Spain. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 04/09/24 / 2024-09-04 16:41:51 / September 4, 2024 @ 4:41 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -0.5305° West, 38.7793° North. The temblor was detected at 16:41:51 / 4:41 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000nhk5. Event ids that are associated: us7000nhk5.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Xirivella, Jumilla, Aldaia. Close country/countries that might be effected, Spain (c. 46 506 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Alicante (c. 334 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Elche (c. 230 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Gandia (c. 80 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Torrent (c. 78 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Benidorm (c. 71 000 pop).

Every 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 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 was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 1 km WSW of Agres, Spain.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-0.5305° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.7793° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km WSW of Agres, Spain	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-04 16:41:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-01 21:20:49	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	129	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.247	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	125	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	us7000nhk5	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nhk5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nhk5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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