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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 63 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico


Earthquake location 14.3421S, -92.864WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico. The temblor was detected at 15:52:53 / 3:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/03/19 / 2019-03-05 21:52:53 / March 5, 2019 @ 9:52 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000jb0d. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000jb0d. Exact location, longitude -92.864° West, latitude 14.3421° North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Champerico, Villa Comaltitlán, Tuxtla Chico (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Ciudad Tecún Umán (c. 11 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Ocós (c. 9 500 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Pajapita (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

Questions or comments?

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: 63 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.864° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.3421° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-05 21:52:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-05 22:25:32 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 369 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 1.147 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 us1000jb0d Id of event.
Event Code 1000jb0d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jb0d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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