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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Puerto Madero in Mexico


Earthquake location 14.5427S, -93.3957WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 106 km W of Puerto Madero, Mexico (66 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 33.3 km (21 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -93.3957 West, latitude 14.5427 North, depth = 33.3 km. Event id: us20005asv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005asv. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/03/16 / 2016-03-16 17:10:51 / March 16, 2016 @ 5:10 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 11:10:51 / 11:10 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 106 km W of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.3957° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.5427° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106km W 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 2016-03-16 17:10:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-21 22:28:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 284 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 1.647 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 200 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 us20005asv Id of event.
Event Code 20005asv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005asv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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