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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Socorro Island in Mexico


Earthquake location 19.8916S, -109.1901WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 225 km NE of Socorro Island, Mexico (140 miles). Unique identifier: us20006713. Ids that are associated to the event: us20006713. Global time and date of event 26/06/16 / 2016-06-26 20:05:47 / June 26, 2016 @ 8:05 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.51 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 13:05:47 / 1:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 38.51 km, -109.1901° West, 19.8916° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two 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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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 225 km NE of Socorro Island, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -109.1901° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.8916° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 225km NE of Socorro Island, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-26 20:05:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-26 20:26:08 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 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 3.84 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 212 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 us20006713 Id of event.
Event Code 20006713 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006713, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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