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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Puerto Madero in Mexico

Posted by admin on June 4, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.6203S, -92.3848WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico on Friday. Global time and date of event 22/05/20 / 2020-05-22 07:15:15 / May 22, 2020 @ 7:15 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000a3zw. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000a3zw. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:15:15 / 7:15 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 58.45 km (36 miles). Exact location, longitude -92.3848° West, latitude 14.6203° North, depth = 58.45 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Mateo, Cuyotenango, Comitancillo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 35 km (21 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Pedro Sacatepéquez (c. 40 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ostuncalco (c. 28 900 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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-two 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 11 km SSE of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.3848° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.6203° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km SSE 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 2020-05-22 07:15:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-04 10:38:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.308 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us6000a3zw Id of event.
Event Code 6000a3zw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a3zw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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