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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Puerto Madero in Mexico


Earthquake location 14.7483S, -92.6768WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico. Exact location, longitude -92.6768° West, latitude 14.7483° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us1000eq54. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000eq54. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/06/18 / 2018-06-13 18:17:14 / June 13, 2018 @ 6:17 pm. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:17:14 / 12:17 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Motozintla de Mendoza (c. 19 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Mapastepec (c. 16 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Malacatán (c. 14 900 pop). Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Quetzal, Flores Costa Cuca, Coatepeque (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 27 km W of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.6768° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7483° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km W of Puerto Madero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-13 18:17:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-14 15:01:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 284 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 0.976 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 us1000eq54 Id of event.
Event Code 1000eq54 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eq54, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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