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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near San Carlos in Mexico


Earthquake location 27.6296S, -111.1488WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from San Carlos in Mexico on Sunday. Unique identifier: us6000c5hp. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c5hp. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/10/20 / 2020-10-04 17:13:14 / October 4, 2020 @ 5:13 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -111.1488 West, latitude 27.6296 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 17:13:14 / 5:13 pm (local time epicenter). 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 San Ignacio Río Muerto, Vicam, Potam (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Heroica Guaymas (c. 103 400 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Empalme (c. 38 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Vicam (c. 8 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from San Ignacio Río Muerto (c. 7 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Potam (c. 5 900 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 37 km SSW of San Carlos, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.1488° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.6296° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37 km SSW of San Carlos, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-04 17:13:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-04 19:57:56 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 312 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 1.018 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 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 us6000c5hp Id of event.
Event Code 6000c5hp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c5hp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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