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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Raton in New Mexico

Posted by admin on August 24, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9324S, -104.8638WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Raton in New Mexico. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.53 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.8638 West, latitude 36.9324 North, depth = 6.53 km. Event id: us1000ggha. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ggha. The temblor was picked up at 23:56:51 / 11:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/08/18 / 2018-08-24 06:56:51 / August 24, 2018 @ 6:56 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Trinidad, Raton. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Trinidad (c. 9 100 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Raton (c. 6 900 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 37 km W of Raton, New Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.8638° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9324° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km W of Raton, 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 2018-08-24 06:56:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-24 07:15:49 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 4 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 0.2 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000ggha Id of event.
Event Code 1000ggha An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ggha, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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