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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near San Patricio in Mexico


Earthquake location 18.0519S, -105.3049WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 143 km SSW of San Patricio, Mexico (89 miles). The temblor was detected at 04:07:10 / 4:07 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200062ib. Id of event: us200062ib. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/06/16 / 2016-06-07 11:07:10 / June 7, 2016 @ 11:07 am. Exact location of earthquake, -105.3049° West, 18.0519° North, depth 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 143 km SSW of San Patricio, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -105.3049° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0519° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 143km SSW 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 2016-06-07 11:07:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-07 11:29:46 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 326 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 4.174 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 227 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 us200062ib Id of event.
Event Code 200062ib An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200062ib, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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