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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Littlefield in Arizona

Posted by admin on November 20, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.5136S, -113.5335WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Littlefield in Arizona on Friday. The temblor was reported at 11:48:07 / 11:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/11/15 / 2015-11-20 18:48:07 / November 20, 2015 @ 6:48 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 9.28 km, -113.5335° West, 36.5136° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.28 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10003zw5. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00519662, us10003zw5.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Washington (c. 18 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mesquite (c. 15 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hurricane (c. 13 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hurricane, Ivins, Santa Clara (min 5000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 54 km SE of Littlefield, Arizona.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -113.5335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5136° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km SE of Littlefield, Arizona Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-20 18:48:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-20 22:52:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 ,nn,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 0.549 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us10003zw5 Id of event.
Event Code 10003zw5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00519662,us10003zw5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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