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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Carlsbad in New Mexico

Posted by admin on May 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.9833S, -104.849WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Carlsbad in New Mexico on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 11:12:23 / 11:12 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -104.849° West, latitude 31.9833° North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 17/05/16 / 2016-05-17 16:12:23 / May 17, 2016 @ 4:12 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10005i01. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005i01.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carlsbad. Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 75 km SW of Carlsbad, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.849° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.9833° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km SW of Carlsbad, New Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-17 16:12:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-17 16:36:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 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 ,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 0.535 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10005i01 Id of event.
Event Code 10005i01 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005i01, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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