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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Petatlan in Mexico

Posted by admin on April 7, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.4703S, -101.1898WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Petatlan in Mexico. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:52:19 / 7:52 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/04/20 / 2020-04-07 01:52:19 / April 7, 2020 @ 1:52 am. Exact location, longitude -101.1898° West, latitude 17.4703° North, depth = 35 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008qbg. Unique identifier: us70008qbg.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Atoyac de Álvarez, San Jerónimo de Juárez, Tecpan de Galeana (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo (c. 61 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Atoyac de Álvarez (c. 21 400 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Petatlán (c. 21 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Tecpan de Galeana (c. 14 600 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from San José Ixtapa (Barrio Viejo) (c. 8 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Jerónimo de Juárez (c. 7 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from El Súchil (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 9 km ESE of Petatlan, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -101.1898° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.4703° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km ESE of Petatlan, 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 01:52:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-07 02:27:06 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 354 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 2.165 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 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 us70008qbg Id of event.
Event Code 70008qbg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008qbg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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