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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Guerrero, Mexico


Earthquake location 16.9708S, -98.7157WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, Guerrero, Mexico kilometers (0 miles) from Guerrero, Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 65.25 km, -98.7157° West, 16.9708° North. Event id: us10008run. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008run. The temblor was picked up at 13:14:18 / 1:14 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/05/17 / 2017-05-12 13:14:18 / May 12, 2017 @ 1:14 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 65.25 km (41 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, Pinotepa de Don Luis, Tixtla de Guerrero. Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Tlapa de Comonfort (c. 36 900 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Malinaltepec (c. 26 600 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Chilapa de Alvarez (c. 23 700 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Tixtla de Guerrero (c. 21 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Marcos (c. 12 300 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Guerrero, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7157° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.9708° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 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 2017-05-12 13:14:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-20 08:12:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 340 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 0.605 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223 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 us10008run Id of event.
Event Code 10008run An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008run, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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