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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near La Orilla in Mexico

Posted by admin on February 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9716S, -102.2927WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from La Orilla in Mexico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -102.2927° West, 17.9716° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 19:24:22 / 7:24 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000cfv0. Id of event: us1000cfv0. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/02/18 / 2018-02-05 01:24:22 / February 5, 2018 @ 1:24 am.

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 8 km (5 miles) from Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas (c. 84 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo (c. 61 300 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Guacamayas (c. 39 400 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from La Orilla (c. 20 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from La Mira Tumbiscatio (c. 14 500 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Buenos Aires (c. 9 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, La Mira Tumbiscatio, San José Ixtapa (Barrio Viejo) (min 5000 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km WSW of La Orilla, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -102.2927° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9716° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km WSW of La Orilla, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-05 01:24:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-05 02:46:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 259 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 1.948 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us1000cfv0 Id of event.
Event Code 1000cfv0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cfv0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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