Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake in Gulf of California

Kyodo News (Japan) | January 4, 2006

[Esther Ruth]

EMSC at 3:53 this morn posting it a 6.8
(little difference)

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EARTHQUAKE on 04/01/2006 at 08:32 (UTC)
GULF OF CALIFORNIA, MEXICO 38 km S San rafael

MAGNITUDE: Ms 6.8

Data provided by: BRA GFZ IMP LVV NEIC ODC RNS SED ZAMG

Latitude = 28.22 N
Longitude = 111.96 W
Origin Time = 08:32:32.5 (UTC)
Depth = 10 Km (f)
RMS = 1.41 sec
Gap = 122 degrees
95% confidence ellipse: - Semi major = 9.3 Km
- Semi minor = 6.2 Km
- Azimuth of major axis = 39 degrees

Number of data used = 146
Preliminary location computed on Wed Jan 4 09:45:02 2006 (UTC)
Done by Gilles Mazet-Roux

Comments :
Message number: 641

All magnitudes estimations :
mb5.9 (BRA) mb6.0 (GFZ) M 6.7 (NEIC) mb5.8 (ODC)
mb6.2 (RNS) mb6.1 (SED) mb5.6 (ZAMG)

[balrog666]

[xcamel]

only about 200 miles from my house in La Paz :-(

[mware]

...and it is only January 4th.