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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Acapulco de Juarez in Mexico

Posted by admin on February 13, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.5248S, -100.0085WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Acapulco de Juarez in Mexico on Sunday. Id of earthquake: us2000jcw0. Event ids that are associated: us2000jcw0. The temblor was detected at 07:47:39 / 7:47 am (local time epicenter). 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). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/01/19 / 2019-01-27 14:47:39 / January 27, 2019 @ 2:47 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -100.0085 West, latitude 16.5248 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cruz Grande, El Ocotito, Atoyac de Álvarez (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Acapulco de Juárez (c. 652 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Atoyac de Álvarez (c. 21 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Coyuca de Benítez (c. 12 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from San Marcos (c. 12 300 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Tierra Colorada (c. 10 200 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Cruz Grande (c. 9 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from San Jerónimo de Juárez (c. 7 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 39 km SSW of Acapulco de Juarez, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -100.0085° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.5248° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km SSW of Acapulco de Juarez, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-27 14:47:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-13 20:29:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 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 0.366 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 us2000jcw0 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jcw0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jcw0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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