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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near New Mexico


Earthquake location 35.2285S, -107.9241WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported New Mexico kilometers (0 miles) from New Mexico on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/08/19 / 2019-08-10 04:16:44 / August 10, 2019 @ 4:16 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -107.9241° West, 35.2285° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 04:16:44 / 4:16 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000539i. Id of event: us6000539i.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Grants (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 11 km (7 miles) from Grants (c. 9 200 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: New Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -107.9241° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.2285° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 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 2019-08-10 04:16:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-10 04:26:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 121 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 1.235 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 84 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 us6000539i Id of event.
Event Code 6000539i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000539i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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