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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Higuera de Zaragoza in Mexico

Posted by admin on July 20, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 25.6368S, -109.5471WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Higuera de Zaragoza in Mexico. The temblor was reported at 00:31:34 / 12:31 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20002ym9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002ym9. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/07/15 / 2015-07-20 06:31:34 / July 20, 2015 @ 6:31 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -109.5471° West, 25.6368° North.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Blas, Leyva Solano, Adolfo Ruíz Cortínes (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Los Mochis (c. 214 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Leyva Solano (c. 27 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Juan Jose Rios (c. 26 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Adolfo Ruíz Cortínes (c. 12 900 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Ahome (c. 10 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Higuera de Zaragoza (c. 9 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Topolobampo (c. 7 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 43 km SW of Higuera de Zaragoza, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -109.5471° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.6368° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km SW of Higuera de Zaragoza, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-20 06:31:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-20 07:00:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 326 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 2.939 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20002ym9 Id of event.
Event Code 20002ym9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002ym9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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