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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near San Mateo del Mar in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.6245S, -94.9084WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -94.9084 West, latitude 15.6245 North, depth = 35 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e3z8. Id of event: us1000e3z8. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/05/18 / 2018-05-13 05:43:07 / May 13, 2018 @ 5:43 am. The temblor was reported at 23:43:07 / 11:43 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Amilpas, Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, Salina Cruz (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Mateo del Mar (c. 5 400 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 64 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.9084° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.6245° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-13 05:43:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-13 07:38:27 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 246 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 2.745 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 us1000e3z8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000e3z8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e3z8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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