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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Crucecita in Mexico

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Crucecita in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000b78x. Event ids that are associated: us6000b78x. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:19:23 / 1:19 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 31/07/20 / 2020-07-31 01:19:23 / July 31, 2020 @ 1:19 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -95.9323° West, 15.6657° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from San Pedro Pochutla (c. 13 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Santa María Xadani (c. 5 900 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Santa María Huatulco (c. 5 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Pedro Pochutla, Santa María Huatulco, Santa María Xadani (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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. 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: 24 km ESE of Crucecita, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.9323° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.6657° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24 km ESE of Crucecita, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-07-31 01:19:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-31 01:48:37	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	3.152	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	230	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	us6000b78x	Id of event.
Event Code	6000b78x	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000b78x,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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