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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 90 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico


Earthquake location 14.2607S, -93.1121WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/04/19 / 2019-04-12 13:31:49 / April 12, 2019 @ 1:31 pm. Id of earthquake: us700034yw. Event ids that are associated: us700034yw. Exact location, longitude -93.1121° West, latitude 14.2607° North, depth = 35 km. The temblor was detected at 07:31:49 / 7:31 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Mazatán (c. 5 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mazatán, Puerto Madero (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fourty-three 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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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: 90 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.1121° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.2607° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km 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 2019-04-12 13:31:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-12 20:09:33 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 326 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 1.398 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 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 us700034yw Id of event.
Event Code 700034yw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700034yw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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