Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 78 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico. The temblor was picked up at 22:39:38 / 10:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -93.074 West, latitude 14.4066 North, depth = 46.42 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.42 km (29 miles). Event id: us10006ub7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006ub7. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/10/16 / 2016-10-01 04:39:38 / October 1, 2016 @ 4:39 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ocós, Brisas Barra de Suchiate, Mazatán (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Ocós (c. 9 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Mazatán (c. 5 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 78 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-93.074° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.4066° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	78km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-10-01 04:39:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-01 04:58:26	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	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	312	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	1.341	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	165	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	us10006ub7	Id of event.
Event Code	10006ub7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006ub7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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