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Minor earthquake, 3.38 mag was detected near Maneadero in B.C. in MX


Earthquake location 31.2343333S, -115.9365WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Maneadero in B.C. in MX. The temblor was detected at 20:35:32 / 8:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -115.9365° West, latitude 31.2343333° North, depth = 5.996 km. Id of earthquake: ci37198783. Event ids that are associated: ci37198783. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/15 / 2015-07-06 03:35:32 / July 6, 2015 @ 3:35 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.996 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada, San Quintín, Benito García (El Zorrillo). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada (c. 17 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Vicente Guerrero (c. 12 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Camalú (c. 7 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Benito García (El Zorrillo) (c. 6 600 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Emiliano Zapata (c. 5 800 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 80 km SE of Maneadero, B.C., MX. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.38 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.9365° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.2343333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.996 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km SE of Maneadero, B.C., MX Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-06 03:35:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-06 15:57:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 176 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ci The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ci, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4453 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 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 ci37198783 Id of event.
Event Code 37198783 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37198783, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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