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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 88 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico

Posted by admin on January 5, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.3699S, -93.1583WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/01/19 / 2019-01-05 18:52:57 / January 5, 2019 @ 6:52 pm. Unique identifier: us2000j0ix. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j0ix. Exact location of event, longitude -93.1583 West, latitude 14.3699 North, depth = 35 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:52:57 / 12:52 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Mazatán (c. 5 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mazatán, Puerto Madero (min 5000 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 88 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.1583° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.3699° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km WSW 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 2019-01-05 18:52:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-05 19:09:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 340 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 1.426 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000j0ix Id of event.
Event Code 2000j0ix An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j0ix, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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