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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 66 km WSW of Guaymas, Mexico


Earthquake location 27.641S, -111.4898WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Guaymas in Mexico on Tuesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us10007bcw. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007bcw. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 00:48:30 / 12:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -111.4898° West, latitude 27.641° North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/11/16 / 2016-11-22 07:48:30 / November 22, 2016 @ 7:48 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Heroica Guaymas (c. 103 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Empalme (c. 38 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Santa Rosalia (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Rosalia, Empalme, Heroica Guaymas (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km WSW of Guaymas, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4898° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.641° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km WSW of Guaymas, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-22 07:48:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-22 08:51:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 298 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 0.74 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us10007bcw Id of event.
Event Code 10007bcw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007bcw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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