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Strong earthquake, 6 mag has occurred near San Patricio in Mexico

Posted by admin on June 30, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0696S, -105.093WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from San Patricio in Mexico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000frwr. Id of event: us2000frwr. Exact location of event, depth 24.84 km, -105.093° West, 19.0696° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/06/18 / 2018-06-30 03:56:52 / June 30, 2018 @ 3:56 am. The 6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:56:52 / 8:56 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.84 km (15 miles).

The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 130 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 110 700 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Autlán de Navarro (c. 42 200 pop), 120 km (74 miles) from Armeria (c. 17 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Cihuatlán (c. 16 500 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Casimiro Castillo (c. 11 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from La Resolana (c. 11 200 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from El Colomo (c. 10 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Armeria, La Tijera, Autlán de Navarro. Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 44 km WSW of San Patricio, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -105.093° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0696° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km WSW of San Patricio, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-30 03:56:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-30 04:33:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 46 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.52 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 578 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 3.694 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000frwr Id of event.
Event Code 2000frwr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000frwr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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