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Minor earthquake: M2.5 quake strikes near Mountainaire in Arizona


Earthquake location 35.043S, -111.6418WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.5 (mg/mb) has striked on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Mountainaire in Arizona. The temblor was reported at 09:33:46 / 9:33 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-28 04:33:46 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -111.6418 West, latitude 35.043 North, depth 5 km.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Flagstaff (c. 65 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Verde Village (c. 11 600 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from West Sedona (c. 11 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Cottonwood (c. 11 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Camp Verde (c. 10 900 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Camp Verde, Verde Village, Cottonwood.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.6418° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.043° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSE of Mountainaire, Arizona Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-01-28 16:33:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-01-28 23:17:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 97 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 0.521 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 usb000tixv Id of event.
Event Code b000tixv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS usb000tixv A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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