Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 29 km ESE of Acapulco de Juarez, Mexico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Acapulco de Juarez in Mexico on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000dvnw. Unique identifier: us1000dvnw. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/05/18 / 2018-05-02 00:18:28 / May 2, 2018 @ 12:18 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -99.6631 West, latitude 16.7185 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 18:18:28 / 6:18 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Copala, Ayutla de los Libres, El Ocotito. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Acapulco de Juárez (c. 652 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Coyuca de Benítez (c. 12 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from San Marcos (c. 12 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Tierra Colorada (c. 10 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ayutla de los Libres (c. 9 900 pop).

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 has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 29 km ESE of Acapulco de Juarez, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-99.6631° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	16.7185° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km ESE of Acapulco de Juarez, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-05-02 00:18:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-02 00:58:22	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	178	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	1.343	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	282	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000dvnw	Id of event.
Event Code	1000dvnw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000dvnw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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