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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near San Patricio in Mexico


Earthquake location 18.9905S, -104.8623WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from San Patricio in Mexico. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -104.8623° West, 18.9905° North. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:32:14 / 3:32 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us200062hv. Unique identifier: us200062hv. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/06/16 / 2016-06-07 10:32:14 / June 7, 2016 @ 10:32 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Casimiro Castillo, La Resolana, El Colomo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 130 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 110 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Cihuatlán (c. 16 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Casimiro Castillo (c. 11 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from La Resolana (c. 11 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from El Colomo (c. 10 900 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 30 km SW of San Patricio, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.8623° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9905° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SW of San Patricio, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-07 10:32:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-07 13:17:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 259 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 3.494 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 222 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 us200062hv Id of event.
Event Code 200062hv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200062hv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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