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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 64 km WNW of Puerto Penasco, Mexico


Earthquake location 31.4493S, -114.1945WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Puerto Penasco in Mexico. Event id: us2000gft1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000gft1. The temblor was picked up at 19:33:52 / 7:33 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -114.1945 West, latitude 31.4493 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/07/18 / 2018-07-28 02:33:52 / July 28, 2018 @ 2:33 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Puerto Peñasco (c. 33 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Felipe (c. 15 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Felipe, Puerto Peñasco (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km WNW of Puerto Penasco, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.1945° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.4493° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km WNW of Puerto Penasco, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-28 02:33:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-28 03:02:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 312 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 0.637 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 109 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 us2000gft1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000gft1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gft1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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