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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Golfo de Santa Clara in Mexico

Posted by admin on December 30, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.461S, -114.0618WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Golfo de Santa Clara in Mexico on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: us7000rli0. Event ids that are associated: us7000rli0. Exact location of earthquake, -114.0618° West, 31.461° North, depth 5.655 km. Global time and date of event 30/12/25 / 2025-12-30 11:02:39 / December 30, 2025 @ 11:02 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.655 km (4 miles). The temblor was reported at 11:02:39 / 11:02 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Puerto Peñasco (c. 33 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puerto Peñasco.

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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 48 km ESE of Golfo de Santa Clara, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.0618° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.461° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.655 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48 km ESE of Golfo de Santa Clara, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-12-30 11:02:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-30 12:05:13 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 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.147 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 235 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 us7000rli0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000rli0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rli0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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