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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 58 km ENE of San Vicente, Mexico


Earthquake location 31.4892S, -115.6671WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from San Vicente in Mexico on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/08/20 / 2020-08-23 23:05:38 / August 23, 2020 @ 11:05 pm. The temblor was detected at 23:05:38 / 11:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -115.6671° West, 31.4892° North, depth 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39357479, us6000bjjd. Id of event: us6000bjjd. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Camalú (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Camalú (c. 7 400 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km ENE of San Vicente, Mexico. 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 -115.6671° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.4892° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 km ENE of San Vicente, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-23 23:05:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-24 20:54:51 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 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 ,ci,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 0.139 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us6000bjjd Id of event.
Event Code 6000bjjd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39357479,us6000bjjd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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