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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Colonia Vicente Guerrero in Mexico

Posted by admin on May 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 30.8675S, -115.6491WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Colonia Vicente Guerrero in Mexico. A tsunami warning has been issued near Colonia Vicente Guerrero in Mexico (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -115.6491° West, latitude 30.8675° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us10005ggm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00o70958, us10005ggm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/05/16 / 2016-05-11 09:03:11 / May 11, 2016 @ 9:03 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 02:03:11 / 2:03 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from San Felipe (c. 15 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Vicente Guerrero (c. 12 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Camalú (c. 7 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Emiliano Zapata (c. 5 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from San Quintín (c. 5 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Felipe, San Quintín, Camalú.

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 36 km ENE of Colonia Vicente Guerrero, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.6491° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.8675° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km ENE of Colonia Vicente Guerrero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-11 09:03:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-11 09:22:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 1 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 298 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 ,at,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 0.706 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 164 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10005ggm Id of event.
Event Code 10005ggm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00o70958,us10005ggm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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