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Strong earthquake, 6.3 mag was detected near Loreto in Mexico

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A earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Loreto in Mexico. The temblor was reported at 09:17:44 / 9:17 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000cl83. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00p2t99m, us2000cl83. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -110.9819 West, latitude 26.6343 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/01/18 / 2018-01-19 16:17:44 / January 19, 2018 @ 4:17 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Loreto in Mexico (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 123 km (77 miles) from Pueblo Yaqui (c. 14 800 pop), 126 km (78 miles) from Villa Juarez (c. 14 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Loreto (c. 11 200 pop), 113 km (71 miles) from San Ignacio Río Muerto (c. 7 400 pop), 126 km (78 miles) from Campo Sesenta (c. 6 000 pop), 124 km (77 miles) from Potam (c. 5 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Villa Juarez, Campo Sesenta, Potam (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 77 km NNE of Loreto, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Campo Sesenta Loreto Mexico Potam Pueblo Yaqui San Ignacio Río Muerto Villa Juarez

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-110.9819° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	26.6343° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	77km 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 16:17:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-19 16:39:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	24	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.9	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	1	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	620	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	,at,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	3.082	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000cl83	Id of event.
Event Code	2000cl83	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00p2t99m,us2000cl83,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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