Earthquake: M 4 quake strikes near Tulum in Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (mg/mb) was reported Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Tulum in Mexico. The temblor was reported at 09:49:13 / 9:49 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 14.06 km (9 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-12 03:49:13 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -87.4113 West, latitude 20.3466 North, depth 14.06 km.

Close countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Playa del Carmen (c. 100 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from San Miguel de Cozumel (c. 73 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Chemax (c. 10 600 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Tulum (c. 8 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kantunilkin (c. 7 200 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kantunilkin, Leona Vicario, Chemax.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-87.4113° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	20.3466° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.06 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km NNE of Tulum, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-01-12 03:49:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-01-12 22:20:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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		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	248	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	0.82	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	99	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	usc000tf05	Id of event.
Event Code	c000tf05	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	usc000tf05	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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