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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near San Patricio in Mexico

Posted by admin on June 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.5455S, -105.307WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 98 kilometers (61 miles) from San Patricio in Mexico. The temblor was reported at 05:25:03 / 5:25 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 27.05 km (17 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 01/06/16 / 2016-06-01 12:25:03 / June 1, 2016 @ 12:25 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005zlb. Id of event: us20005zlb. Exact location of event, longitude -105.307 West, latitude 18.5455 North, depth = 27.05 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Patricio (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) from San Patricio (c. 6 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days ten 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 98 km SW of San Patricio, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -105.307° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5455° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98km SW of San Patricio, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-01 12:25:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-01 12:49:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 4.01 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 199 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 us20005zlb Id of event.
Event Code 20005zlb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005zlb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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