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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Loreto in Mexico

Posted by admin on January 19, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 26.5553S, -111.0667WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Loreto in Mexico on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -111.0667 West, latitude 26.5553 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/01/18 / 2018-01-19 16:48:28 / January 19, 2018 @ 4:48 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us2000cl8x. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000cl8x. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:48:28 / 9:48 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Loreto. Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Loreto (c. 11 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 66 km NNE of Loreto, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.0667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.5553° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km NNE of Loreto, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-19 16:48:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-19 18:33:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 1.295 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us2000cl8x Id of event.
Event Code 2000cl8x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cl8x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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