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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near San Jose del Cabo in Mexico


Earthquake location 22.994S, -108.9143WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from San Jose del Cabo in Mexico. Event id: us70007t0n. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007t0n. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/02/20 / 2020-02-19 13:55:48 / February 19, 2020 @ 1:55 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -108.9143 West, latitude 22.994 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 06:55:48 / 6:55 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Veredas, San José del Cabo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from San José del Cabo (c. 48 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Las Veredas (c. 10 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

Every 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 one 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 80 km E of San Jose del Cabo, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -108.9143° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.994° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km E of San Jose del Cabo, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-19 13:55:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-20 08:20:18 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 259 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 1.17 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 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 us70007t0n Id of event.
Event Code 70007t0n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007t0n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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