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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 73 km ESE of San Felipe, Mexico

Posted by admin on October 17, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 30.7077S, -114.1737WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from San Felipe in Mexico. The temblor was picked up at 09:47:20 / 9:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/10/18 / 2018-10-17 17:47:20 / October 17, 2018 @ 5:47 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us1000hdh6. Event ids that are associated: us1000hdh6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -114.1737 West, latitude 30.7077 North, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puerto Peñasco, San Felipe (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 91 km (56 miles) from Puerto Peñasco (c. 33 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from San Felipe (c. 15 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 one and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 73 km ESE of San Felipe, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.1737° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.7077° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km ESE of San Felipe, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-17 17:47:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-17 20:03:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 259 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 0.668 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 176 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 us1000hdh6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hdh6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hdh6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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