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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Tsaile in Arizona


Earthquake location 36.3242S, -109.2771WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Tsaile in Arizona. The temblor was detected at 14:55:10 / 2:55 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 10/06/20 / 2020-06-10 14:55:10 / June 10, 2020 @ 2:55 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000a9br. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000a9br. Exact location, longitude -109.2771° West, latitude 36.3242° North, depth = 13.95 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.95 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Shiprock (c. 8 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shiprock. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 has struck near.

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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: 5 km WNW of Tsaile, Arizona. 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 -109.2771° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3242° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km WNW of Tsaile, Arizona Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-10 14:55:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-17 08:44:12 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 1.077 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us6000a9br Id of event.
Event Code 6000a9br An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a9br, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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