Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Santa Rosalia in Mexico


Earthquake location 27.6913S, -111.6355WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Santa Rosalia in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000bu94. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bu94. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/11/17 / 2017-11-25 07:18:48 / November 25, 2017 @ 7:18 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -111.6355 West, latitude 27.6913 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 00:18:48 / 12:18 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Empalme, Heroica Guaymas, Santa Rosalia (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Heroica Guaymas (c. 103 400 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Empalme (c. 38 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Santa Rosalia (c. 11 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, 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 one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

Did you feel it?

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: 76 km ENE of Santa Rosalia, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2017 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.6355° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.6913° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km ENE of Santa Rosalia, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-25 07:18:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-25 08:13:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 246 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 0.652 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 us2000bu94 Id of event.
Event Code 2000bu94 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bu94, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply