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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 11 km E of Puerto Madero, Mexico


Earthquake location 14.7189S, -92.3145WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 78.24 km (49 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000a6uj. Event ids that are associated: us2000a6uj. Exact location of event, depth 78.24 km, -92.3145° West, 14.7189° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/08/17 / 2017-08-10 09:53:11 / August 10, 2017 @ 9:53 am. The temblor was reported at 03:53:11 / 3:53 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 22 km (13 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from San Pedro Sacatepéquez (c. 40 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Samayac, San Andrés Xecul, Mazatenango (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 11 km E of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.3145° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7189° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km E 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 2017-08-10 09:53:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-10 22:12:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 285 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 0.63 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 188 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 us2000a6uj Id of event.
Event Code 2000a6uj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a6uj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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