Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near La Esperanza (El Zapotal) in Mexico

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from La Esperanza (El Zapotal) in Mexico on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude -93.1923° West, latitude 15.0804° North, depth = 57.5 km. Id of earthquake: us7000bcmb. Event ids that are associated: us7000bcmb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 57.5 km (36 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:07:33 / 11:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/08/20 / 2020-08-18 23:07:33 / August 18, 2020 @ 11:07 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puerto Madero, Huehuetán, Mazatán (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mapastepec (c. 16 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Pijijiapan (c. 15 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Escuintla (c. 9 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Villa Comaltitlán (c. 7 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 three and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 40 km S of La Esperanza (El Zapotal), Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-93.1923° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.0804° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	57.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40 km S of La Esperanza (El Zapotal), Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-18 23:07:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-26 00:03:29	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	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	1.55	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	186	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	us7000bcmb	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bcmb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bcmb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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