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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Cimarron in New Mexico


Earthquake location 36.8562S, -104.9053WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Cimarron in New Mexico on Friday. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:05:48 / 5:05 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000kb31. Unique identifier: us2000kb31. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.9053 West, latitude 36.8562 North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/04/19 / 2019-04-06 00:05:48 / April 6, 2019 @ 12:05 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Trinidad (c. 9 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Raton (c. 6 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Trinidad, Raton (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 38 km N of Cimarron, New Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.9053° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8562° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km N of Cimarron, 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 2019-04-06 00:05:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-06 00:28:07 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 0.063 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us2000kb31 Id of event.
Event Code 2000kb31 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000kb31, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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