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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Cuba in New Mexico


Earthquake location 36.1758S, -106.9132WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Cuba in New Mexico on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/06/18 / 2018-06-26 03:55:09 / June 26, 2018 @ 3:55 am UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:55:09 / 8:55 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -106.9132° West, 36.1758° North, depth 5 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000f1x7. Id of event: us1000f1x7.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Española, White Rock, Los Alamos. Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Los Alamos (c. 12 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Española (c. 10 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from White Rock (c. 5 700 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km NNE of Cuba, New Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -106.9132° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1758° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NNE of Cuba, 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 2018-06-26 03:55:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-26 23:40:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 139 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 1.282 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us1000f1x7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000f1x7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000f1x7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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