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Minor earthquake: M3.03 quake has struck near Ensenada in B.C. in MX


Earthquake location 31.9134998S, -116.1953354WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Ensenada in B.C. in MX. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/10/16 / 2016-10-07 16:28:48 / October 7, 2016 @ 4:28 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -116.1953354 West, latitude 31.9134998 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: ci37712312. Event ids that are associated: ci37712312. The temblor was picked up at 09:28:48 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Primo Tapia, El Sauzal, Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada. Event epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Ensenada (c. 256 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada (c. 17 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from El Sauzal (c. 9 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Benito García (El Zorrillo) (c. 6 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Primo Tapia (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 40 km E of Ensenada, B.C., MX.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.1953354° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.9134998° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km E of Ensenada, 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 2016-10-07 16:28:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-07 16:40:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 automatic 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 141 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2291 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 ci37712312 Id of event.
Event Code 37712312 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37712312, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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