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Minor earthquake 3.7 mag, 1 km ENE of Amatillo, Mexico


Earthquake location 16.8234S, -99.6537WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Amatillo in Mexico on Sunday. Unique identifier: us7000bmnb. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000bmnb. The temblor was detected at 09:54:09 / 9:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -99.6537° West, latitude 16.8234° North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/09/20 / 2020-09-13 09:54:09 / September 13, 2020 @ 9:54 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Acapulco de Juárez (c. 652 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Chilpancingo de los Bravos (c. 165 300 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Coyuca de Benítez (c. 12 500 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from San Marcos (c. 12 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Tierra Colorada (c. 10 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ayutla de los Libres (c. 9 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chilpancingo de los Bravos, Quechultenango, Petaquillas (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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 ENE of Amatillo, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.6537° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.8234° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km ENE of Amatillo, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-13 09:54:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-13 21:35:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 211 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 1.272 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 227 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000bmnb Id of event.
Event Code 7000bmnb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bmnb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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