Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Paredon in Mexico

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 94 kilometers (58 miles) from Paredon in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 18:22:40 / 6:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -94.1944 West, latitude 15.2403 North, depth = 35 km. Id of earthquake: us1000dt4w. Event ids that are associated: us1000dt4w. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/04/18 / 2018-04-27 00:22:40 / April 27, 2018 @ 12:22 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

The epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Paredón (c. 6 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Paredón (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and three 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 94 km SSW of Paredon, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-94.1944° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.2403° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	94km 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	2018-04-27 00:22:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-27 00:50:07	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	326	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	2.235	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	145	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	us1000dt4w	Id of event.
Event Code	1000dt4w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000dt4w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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