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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Laguna in New Mexico

Posted by admin on October 20, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.246S, -107.4082WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Laguna in New Mexico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/10/16 / 2016-10-20 13:28:01 / October 20, 2016 @ 1:28 pm. Id of earthquake: us20007fks. Event ids that are associated: us20007fks. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -107.4082 West, latitude 35.246 North, depth = 5 km. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:28:01 / 7:28 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Los Chavez, Los Lunas, Bernalillo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Albuquerque (c. 545 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Enchanted Hills (c. 87 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Rio Rancho (c. 87 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from South Valley (c. 41 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Los Lunas (c. 14 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from North Valley (c. 11 300 pop). Close 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 has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 23 km N of Laguna, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -107.4082° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.246° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km N of Laguna, 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 2016-10-20 13:28:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-20 18:30:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 3.79 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 199 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 0.835 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us20007fks Id of event.
Event Code 20007fks An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007fks, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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