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Minor earthquake: M3.45 quake has struck near Alberto Oviedo Mota in B.C. in MX


Earthquake location 32.204834S, -115.2623367WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Alberto Oviedo Mota in B.C. in MX. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/11/18 / 2018-11-19 23:51:19 / November 19, 2018 @ 11:51 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.2623367 West, latitude 32.204834 North, depth = 14.06 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.06 km (9 miles). Unique identifier: ci38138431. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38138431. The temblor was picked up at 15:51:19 / 3:51 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yuma, Imperial, El Centro (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from San Luis Río Colorado (c. 139 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Yuma (c. 93 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 9 km WSW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.45 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.2623367° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.204834° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km WSW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, 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 2018-11-19 23:51:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-19 23:54:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 5.64 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 183 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2171 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 ci38138431 Id of event.
Event Code 38138431 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38138431, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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