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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Paredon in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.3269S, -94.0168WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Paredon in Mexico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/04/18 / 2018-04-12 04:00:30 / April 12, 2018 @ 4:00 am. Id of earthquake: us2000dylc. Event ids that are associated: us2000dylc. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 43.18 km (27 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -94.0168 West, latitude 15.3269 North, depth = 43.18 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:00:30 / 10:00 pm (local time epicenter). 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 Pijijiapan, Tonalá, Paredón (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Pijijiapan (c. 15 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Paredón (c. 6 100 pop).

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

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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 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: 79 km SSW of Paredon, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.0168° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.3269° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km SSW of Paredon, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-12 04:00:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-12 04:10:28 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 2.043 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000dylc Id of event.
Event Code 2000dylc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dylc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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