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Strong earthquake, 6.5 mag strikes near Loreto in Mexico

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A earthquake magnitude 6.5 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Loreto in Mexico on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/01/18 / 2018-01-19 16:17:46 / January 19, 2018 @ 4:17 pm. The temblor was reported at 09:17:46 / 9:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -110.921 West, latitude 26.506 North, depth = 16 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16 km (10 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00p2t99m. Id of event: at00p2t99m. A tsunami warning has been issued near Loreto in Mexico (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles) from Huatabampo (c. 30 400 pop), 129 km (80 miles) from Pueblo Yaqui (c. 14 800 pop), 128 km (79 miles) from Villa Juarez (c. 14 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Loreto (c. 11 200 pop), 121 km (75 miles) from San Ignacio Río Muerto (c. 7 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Huatabampo, Pueblo Yaqui, Villa Juarez (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. 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. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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: 69 km NE of Loreto, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Huatabampo Loreto Mexico Pueblo Yaqui San Ignacio Río Muerto Villa Juarez

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-110.921° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	26.506° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69km NE of Loreto, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-19 16:17:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-19 16:23:46	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	3.4	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	1	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	651	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.428321	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	136.799989056	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00p2t99m	Id of event.
Event Code	00p2t99m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00p2t99m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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