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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Puerto Madero in Mexico


Earthquake location 14.7332S, -92.5446WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/02/17 / 2017-02-03 20:17:13 / February 3, 2017 @ 8:17 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 76.22 km, -92.5446° West, 14.7332° North. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:17:13 / 2:17 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008hhs. Id of event: us20008hhs. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 76.22 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 36 km (22 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from San Pedro Sacatepéquez (c. 40 000 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Marcos (c. 25 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Comitancillo (c. 19 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Sebastián, Comitancillo, Retalhuleu (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 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 two and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km W of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.5446° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7332° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km 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 2017-02-03 20:17:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-03 21:03:41 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 326 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 0.848 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us20008hhs Id of event.
Event Code 20008hhs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008hhs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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