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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 93 km WSW of San Patricio, Mexico


Earthquake location 18.7884S, -105.4702WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from San Patricio in Mexico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/05/18 / 2018-05-09 02:10:17 / May 9, 2018 @ 2:10 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e14n. Id of event: us1000e14n. Exact location of event, longitude -105.4702 West, latitude 18.7884 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:10:17 / 7:10 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 94 km (59 miles) from San Patricio (c. 6 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Patricio (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 93 km WSW of San Patricio, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -105.4702° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7884° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km WSW of San Patricio, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-09 02:10:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-09 02:34:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 298 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 4.099 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 221 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 us1000e14n Id of event.
Event Code 1000e14n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e14n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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