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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Santa Rosalia in Mexico


Earthquake location 28.0327S, -111.9821WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Santa Rosalia in Mexico. The temblor was detected at 02:15:34 / 2:15 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008qgs. Id of event: us70008qgs. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -111.9821 West, latitude 28.0327 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 07/04/20 / 2020-04-07 09:15:34 / April 7, 2020 @ 9:15 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bahía de Kino, Santa Rosalia. The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Santa Rosalia (c. 11 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Bahía de Kino (c. 6 100 pop).

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. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 84 km NNE of Santa Rosalia, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.9821° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.0327° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km NNE of Santa Rosalia, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-07 09:15:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-07 10:17:19 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 284 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 3.745 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 us70008qgs Id of event.
Event Code 70008qgs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008qgs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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