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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near San Felipe in Mexico


Earthquake location 31.0784S, -114.2693WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from San Felipe in Mexico on Monday. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:36:41 / 3:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -114.2693° West, 31.0784° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 19/03/18 / 2018-03-19 23:36:41 / March 19, 2018 @ 11:36 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37897343, us1000d760. Id of event: us1000d760.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puerto Peñasco, San Felipe (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Puerto Peñasco (c. 33 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from San Felipe (c. 15 400 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 57 km E of San Felipe, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.2693° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.0784° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km E of San Felipe, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-19 23:36:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-30 22:16:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 355 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 ,ci,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 0.5 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000d760 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d760 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37897343,us1000d760, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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