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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Congregación Reforma in Mexico


Earthquake location 14.7914S, -92.3287WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Congregación Reforma in Mexico. The temblor was detected at 12:02:18 / 12:02 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 75.08 km (47 miles). Exact location of event, depth 75.08 km, -92.3287° West, 14.7914° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/06/20 / 2020-06-22 12:02:18 / June 22, 2020 @ 12:02 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000agg3. Event ids that are associated: us6000agg3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Almolonga, Quetzaltenango, Cuyotenango (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 15 km (9 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from San Pedro Sacatepéquez (c. 40 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 1 km WNW of Congregación Reforma, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.3287° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7914° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km WNW of Congregación Reforma, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-22 12:02:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-22 13:01:43 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 246 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 0.668 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us6000agg3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000agg3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000agg3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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