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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Puerto Madero in Mexico


Earthquake location 14.4574S, -93.1575WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.86 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -93.1575° West, latitude 14.4574° North, depth = 20.86 km. The temblor was reported at 02:05:43 / 2:05 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/01/17 / 2017-01-07 08:05:43 / January 7, 2017 @ 8:05 am. Unique identifier: us10007ru5. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007ru5.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mazatán, Puerto Madero. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Mazatán (c. 5 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 84 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.1575° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.4574° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km WSW 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 2017-01-07 08:05:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-07 08:31:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 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 1.418 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 us10007ru5 Id of event.
Event Code 10007ru5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007ru5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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