Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Puerto Madero in Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 72.75 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:03:08 / 1:03 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20003172. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003172. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -92.4735° West, latitude 14.6644° North, depth = 72.75 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/07/15 / 2015-07-29 06:03:08 / July 29, 2015 @ 6:03 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from San Pedro Sacatepéquez (c. 40 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Marcos (c. 25 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Sebastián, Retalhuleu, Nuevo San Carlos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km SW of Puerto Madero, 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	-92.4735° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.6644° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	72.75 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-29 06:03:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-29 06:42:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	1.141	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	193	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	us20003172	Id of event.
Event Code	20003172	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003172,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.2 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-92.4735° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

14.6644° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

72.75 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

8km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2015-07-29 06:03:08

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2015-07-29 06:42:37

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-300

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

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

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

1.141

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.15 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

193

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us20003172

Id of event.

Event Code

20003172

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us20003172,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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