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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near San Felipe in Mexico


Earthquake location 31.0371S, -114.233WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from San Felipe in Mexico. Exact location, longitude -114.233° West, latitude 31.0371° North, depth = 10 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:56:10 / 3:56 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us1000d76f. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37897351, us1000d76f. Global time and date of event 19/03/18 / 2018-03-19 23:56:10 / March 19, 2018 @ 11:56 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puerto Peñasco, San Felipe (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Puerto Peñasco (c. 33 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from San Felipe (c. 15 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 60 km E of San Felipe, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.233° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.0371° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km E of San Felipe, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-19 23:56:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-31 03:38:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 246 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 ,ci,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 0.53 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 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 us1000d76f Id of event.
Event Code 1000d76f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37897351,us1000d76f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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