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Strong earthquake, 6.2 mag has occurred near San Patricio in Mexico

Posted by admin on June 7, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.503S, -105.1382WA earthquake with magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from San Patricio in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/06/16 / 2016-06-07 10:51:42 / June 7, 2016 @ 10:51 am. Unique identifier: us200062i1. Ids that are associated to the event: us200062i1. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -105.1382 West, latitude 18.503 North, depth = 32.99 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.99 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 03:51:42 / 3:51 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Huerta, Las Juntas, El Colomo. Epicenter of the event was 106 km (66 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 130 000 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 110 700 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Cihuatlán (c. 16 500 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from El Colomo (c. 10 900 pop), 121 km (75 miles) from La Huerta (c. 7 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from San Patricio (c. 6 700 pop), 113 km (70 miles) from Las Juntas (c. 6 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 91 km SSW of San Patricio, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -105.1382° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.503° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km 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 10:51:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-07 11:17:25 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 4.13 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 591 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 3.869 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us200062i1 Id of event.
Event Code 200062i1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200062i1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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