Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Topolobampo in Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Topolobampo in Mexico on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 09:05:02 / 9:05 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/09/15 / 2015-09-13 15:05:02 / September 13, 2015 @ 3:05 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20003j5w. Unique identifier: us20003j5w. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -109.4325° West, 25.5141° North.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guasave, San Blas, Leyva Solano (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Los Mochis (c. 214 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Guasave (c. 68 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Leyva Solano (c. 27 500 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Juan Jose Rios (c. 26 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Adolfo Ruíz Cortínes (c. 12 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Ahome (c. 10 800 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Higuera de Zaragoza (c. 9 000 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 five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 39 km WSW of Topolobampo, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-109.4325° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	25.5141° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39km WSW of Topolobampo, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-13 15:05:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-13 15:34:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	369	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	5.841	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	168	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	us20003j5w	Id of event.
Event Code	20003j5w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003j5w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.9 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-109.4325° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

25.5141° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

39km WSW of Topolobampo, Mexico

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2015-09-13 15:05:02

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2015-09-13 15:34:30

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-360

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

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

369

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

5.841

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.08 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

168

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us20003j5w

Id of event.

Event Code

20003j5w

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us20003j5w,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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