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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Acapulco de Juarez in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.8401S, -99.8999WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Acapulco de Juarez in Mexico. The temblor was detected at 03:50:30 / 3:50 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/05/18 / 2018-05-10 09:50:30 / May 10, 2018 @ 9:50 am. Exact location, longitude -99.8999° West, latitude 16.8401° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e2fd. Id of event: us1000e2fd. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 3 km (2 miles) from Acapulco de Juárez (c. 652 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Atoyac de Álvarez (c. 21 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Coyuca de Benítez (c. 12 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from San Marcos (c. 12 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Tierra Colorada (c. 10 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ayutla de los Libres (c. 9 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ayutla de los Libres, Petaquillas, Cruz Grande (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 2 km SSW of Acapulco de Juarez, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.8999° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.8401° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SSW of Acapulco de Juarez, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-10 09:50:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-10 21:50:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 223 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 1.463 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 275 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000e2fd Id of event.
Event Code 1000e2fd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e2fd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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