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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 49 km ENE of San Felipe, Mexico


Earthquake location 31.1812S, -114.3914WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from San Felipe in Mexico on Friday. The temblor was detected at 18:38:40 / 6:38 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.91 km (4 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/07/18 / 2018-07-28 02:38:40 / July 28, 2018 @ 2:38 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -114.3914 West, latitude 31.1812 North, depth = 5.91 km. Id of earthquake: us1000g1y8. Event ids that are associated: us1000g1y8.

Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Puerto Peñasco (c. 33 900 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from San Felipe (c. 15 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto Peñasco, San Felipe (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 49 km ENE of San Felipe, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.3914° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.1812° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km ENE 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 2018-07-28 02:38:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-14 23:19:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 284 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 0.419 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 158 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 us1000g1y8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000g1y8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g1y8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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