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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 26 km SSE of Petatlan, Mexico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Petatlan in Mexico on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us2000e0ig. Event ids that are associated: us2000e0ig. Global time and date of event 15/04/18 / 2018-04-15 05:54:48 / April 15, 2018 @ 5:54 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -101.1362° West, 17.3154° North. The temblor was reported at 23:54:48 / 11:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Atoyac de Álvarez, San Jerónimo de Juárez, San José Ixtapa (Barrio Viejo). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 57 km (36 miles) from Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo (c. 61 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Atoyac de Álvarez (c. 21 400 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Petatlán (c. 21 000 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Tecpan de Galeana (c. 14 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from San José Ixtapa (Barrio Viejo) (c. 8 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Jerónimo de Juárez (c. 7 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 26 km SSE of Petatlan, Mexico.

Atoyac de Alvarez Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo Mexico Petatlan San Jerónimo de Juárez San José Ixtapa (Barrio Viejo)Tecpan de Galeana

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-101.1362° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.3154° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km SSE of Petatlan, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-04-15 05:54:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-15 07:37:18	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	234	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	2.32	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	182	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	us2000e0ig	Id of event.
Event Code	2000e0ig	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000e0ig,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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