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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Zihuatanejo in Mexico


Earthquake location 17.7543S, -101.5267WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Zihuatanejo in Mexico. Id of earthquake: us70003fht. Event ids that are associated: us70003fht. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -101.5267 West, latitude 17.7543 North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 02/05/19 / 2019-05-02 03:50:57 / May 2, 2019 @ 3:50 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:50:57 / 9:50 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas (c. 84 000 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo (c. 61 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Guacamayas (c. 39 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Petatlán (c. 21 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from La Orilla (c. 20 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Buenos Aires (c. 9 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Buenos Aires, La Orilla, Guacamayas. Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor 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 one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 13 km N of Zihuatanejo, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -101.5267° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7543° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km N of Zihuatanejo, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-02 03:50:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-02 22:52:33 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 234 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 1.903 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215 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 us70003fht Id of event.
Event Code 70003fht An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003fht, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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