Strong earthquake: M6.6 quake has struck near Puerto Madero in Mexico

A earthquake magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -92.2981 West, latitude 14.7628 North, depth = 67.93 km. The 6.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:14:13 / 10:14 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000jbub. Ids that are associated to the event: at00pm993p, pt19032000, us2000jbub. The epicenter was at a depth of 67.93 km (42 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/02/19 / 2019-02-01 16:14:13 / February 1, 2019 @ 4:14 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Puerto Madero in Mexico (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 128 km (80 miles) from Chichicastenango (c. 79 800 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Huehuetenango (c. 79 400 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Totonicapán (c. 69 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Francisco El Alto (c. 54 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 120 km (74 miles) from Sololá (c. 45 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Angel Albino Corzo, Chichicastenango, Patulul.

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km ENE of Puerto Madero, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Angel Albino Corzo Chichicastenango Coatepeque Guatemala Huehuetenango Mazatenango Mexico Patulul Puerto Madero Quetzaltenango San Francisco El Alto Sololá Tapachula Totonicapán

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-92.2981° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.7628° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	67.93 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km ENE 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	2019-02-01 16:14:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-01 16:45:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	192	The total number of felt reports
CDI	6.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	6.19	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	yellow	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	1	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	787	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	,at,pt,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	0.63	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	135	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000jbub	Id of event.
Event Code	2000jbub	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00pm993p,pt19032000,us2000jbub,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

6.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-92.2981° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

14.7628° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

67.93 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

14km ENE 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

2019-02-01 16:14:13

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-02-01 16:45:19

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-360

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

192

The total number of felt reports

CDI

6.1

The maximum reported intensity for the event.

MMI

6.19

The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.

Alert Level

yellow

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

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

787

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.

Sources

,at,pt,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

0.63

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.33 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

135

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

mww

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us2000jbub

Id of event.

Event Code

2000jbub

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,at00pm993p,pt19032000,us2000jbub,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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