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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near San Pedro Pochutla in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.8149S, -96.5042WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from San Pedro Pochutla in Mexico. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:50:29 / 2:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 36.01 km, -96.5042° West, 15.8149° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 08:50:29 / July 7, 2019 @ 8:50 am. 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 36.01 km (22 miles). Id of earthquake: us70004dsc. Event ids that are associated: us70004dsc.

Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 19 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (c. 17 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from San Pedro Pochutla (c. 13 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Brisas de Zicatela (c. 9 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ejutla de Crespo (c. 8 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Santa María Xadani (c. 5 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Catarina Juquila, Ejutla de Crespo, Puerto Escondido.

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 one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km NNW of San Pedro Pochutla, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.5042° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.8149° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NNW of San Pedro Pochutla, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-07 08:50:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-07 09:28:02 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 2.631 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us70004dsc Id of event.
Event Code 70004dsc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004dsc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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