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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Guardamar del Segura in Spain


Earthquake location 38.082S, -0.541WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Guardamar del Segura in Spain. Id of earthquake: us1000jl37. Event ids that are associated: us1000jl37. The temblor was reported at 17:16:08 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/03/19 / 2019-03-24 16:16:08 / March 24, 2019 @ 4:16 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -0.541° West, 38.082° North, depth 10 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 53 km (33 miles) from Murcia (c. 436 900 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Alicante (c. 334 800 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Elche (c. 230 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Cartagena (c. 212 000 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Torrevieja (c. 101 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ontinyent, Alhama de Murcia, Jumilla (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Spain (c. 46 506 000 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km E of Guardamar del Segura, Spain. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -0.541° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.082° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km E of Guardamar del Segura, Spain Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-24 16:16:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-24 23:32:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 168 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 0.614 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000jl37 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jl37 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jl37, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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