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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Puerto Madero in Mexico


Earthquake location 14.6242S, -92.4514WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/08/15 / 2015-08-19 03:48:49 / August 19, 2015 @ 3:48 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64.48 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:48:49 / 10:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -92.4514° West, latitude 14.6242° North, depth = 64.48 km. Unique identifier: us100033gw. Ids that are associated to the event: us100033gw. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Felipe, San Sebastián, Motozintla de Mendoza. Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 37 km (23 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from San Pedro Sacatepéquez (c. 40 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Marcos (c. 25 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 11 km SSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.4514° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.6242° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-19 03:48:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-19 21:19:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 259 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 0.739 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us100033gw Id of event.
Event Code 100033gw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100033gw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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