Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Puerto Madero in Mexico

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -92.8011° West, latitude 14.6314° North, depth = 57.82 km. Global time and date of event 25/04/20 / 2020-04-25 06:32:12 / April 25, 2020 @ 6:32 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 00:32:12 / 12:32 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 57.82 km (36 miles). Event id: us60009c2j. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009c2j. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Mapastepec (c. 16 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Malacatán (c. 14 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Cacahoatán (c. 14 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Pablo, Mapastepec, Malacatán (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 42 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-92.8011° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.6314° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	57.82 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42km 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	2020-04-25 06:32:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-17 05:39:58	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	271	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	1.076	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	177	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	us60009c2j	Id of event.
Event Code	60009c2j	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60009c2j,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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