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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near San Francisco del Mar in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.5024S, -94.6819WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 80 kilometers (50 miles) from San Francisco del Mar in Mexico on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.22 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:20:54 / 11:20 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jbbe. Unique identifier: us2000jbbe. Exact location of event, longitude -94.6819 West, latitude 15.5024 North, depth = 28.22 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/01/19 / 2019-01-31 17:20:54 / January 31, 2019 @ 5:20 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from San Mateo del Mar (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Mateo del Mar.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 four and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 80 km S of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico. This data 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 -94.6819° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.5024° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km S of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-31 17:20:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-31 19:49:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 2.568 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us2000jbbe Id of event.
Event Code 2000jbbe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jbbe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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