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Minor earthquake: M2.96 quake has struck near Maneadero in B.C. in MX


Earthquake location 31.5108333S, -115.6485WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 90 km ESE of Maneadero, B.C., MX (56 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.52 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ci39361735. Unique identifier: ci39361735. Global time and date of event 27/08/20 / 2020-08-27 08:25:20 / August 27, 2020 @ 8:25 am UTC/GMT. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:25:20 / 8:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -115.6485 West, latitude 31.5108333 North, depth = 9.52 km.

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 90 km ESE of Maneadero, B.C., MX.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.6485° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.5108333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km ESE of Maneadero, B.C., MX Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-27 08:25:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-29 01:40:27 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 135 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ci The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ci, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1661 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 ci39361735 Id of event.
Event Code 39361735 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39361735, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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