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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 15 km SSW of Tecoman, Mexico


Earthquake location 18.7842S, -103.9211WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Tecoman in Mexico on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -103.9211 West, latitude 18.7842 North, depth = 66.28 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:25:41 / 3:25 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 02/09/15 / 2015-09-02 20:25:41 / September 2, 2015 @ 8:25 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003fuq. Id of event: us20003fuq. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66.28 km (41 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Patricio, Cihuatlán, Cofradía (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 130 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Colima (c. 127 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Ciudad de Villa de Álvarez (c. 117 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 110 700 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Tecoman (c. 79 600 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Armeria (c. 17 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Cihuatlán (c. 16 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 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: 15 km SSW of Tecoman, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.9211° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7842° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SSW of Tecoman, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-02 20:25:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-02 22:06:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 342 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 4.162 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 188 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 us20003fuq Id of event.
Event Code 20003fuq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003fuq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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