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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Socorro in New Mexico

Posted by admin on December 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.9625S, -106.7799WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Socorro in New Mexico on Monday. Global time and date of event 11/12/17 / 2017-12-11 11:41:24 / December 11, 2017 @ 11:41 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -106.7799° West, latitude 33.9625° North, depth = 6.3 km. The temblor was detected at 04:41:24 / 4:41 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000c2tu. Event ids that are associated: us2000c2tu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.3 km (4 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 15 km (9 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Socorro (min 5000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km SE of Socorro, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -106.7799° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.9625° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SE of Socorro, 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 2017-12-11 11:41:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-22 09:17:15 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 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 ,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 0.161 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us2000c2tu Id of event.
Event Code 2000c2tu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c2tu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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