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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Mapastepec in Mexico


Earthquake location 14.6376S, -93.6014WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 115 km SW of Mapastepec, Mexico (71 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.98 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 13:38:56 / 1:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -93.6014 West, latitude 14.6376 North, depth = 42.98 km. Unique identifier: us2000jmzu. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jmzu. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/02/19 / 2019-02-25 19:38:56 / February 25, 2019 @ 7:38 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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 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: 115 km SW of Mapastepec, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.6014° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.6376° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 115km SW of Mapastepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-25 19:38:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-20 14:19:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 1.123 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 163 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 us2000jmzu Id of event.
Event Code 2000jmzu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jmzu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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