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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near San Patricio in Mexico


Earthquake location 19.1746S, -105.1328WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 45 kilometers (28 miles) from San Patricio in Mexico on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 22:03:40 / 10:03 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/07/18 / 2018-07-01 05:03:40 / July 1, 2018 @ 5:03 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000fssd. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000fssd. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -105.1328° West, 19.1746° North.

The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 130 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 110 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Cihuatlán (c. 16 500 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Casimiro Castillo (c. 11 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from La Resolana (c. 11 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from El Colomo (c. 10 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Tomatlán (c. 8 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Colomo, Casimiro Castillo, La Resolana.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 45 km W of San Patricio, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -105.1328° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1746° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km W 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 2018-07-01 05:03:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-01 05:39:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 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 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 3.715 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 us2000fssd Id of event.
Event Code 2000fssd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fssd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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