Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Puerto Madero in Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/06/19 / 2019-06-14 18:12:59 / June 14, 2019 @ 6:12 pm. Id of earthquake: us600040wa. Event ids that are associated: us600040wa. The temblor was reported at 12:12:59 / 12:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -93.12 West, latitude 14.3281 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Ocós (c. 9 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Mazatán (c. 5 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ocós, Brisas Barra de Suchiate, Mazatán (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 86 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-93.12° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.3281° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	86km 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	2019-06-14 18:12:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-06-14 18:27:32	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	369	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	1.394	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	178	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	us600040wa	Id of event.
Event Code	600040wa	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600040wa,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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