Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Miguel Hidalgo in Mexico


Earthquake location 19.41S, -99.22WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Miguel Hidalgo in Mexico. Exact location of event, depth 3 km, -99.22° West, 19.41° North. The temblor was reported at 21:59:51 / 9:59 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us70004m0y. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004m0y. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/07/19 / 2019-07-17 03:59:51 / July 17, 2019 @ 3:59 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 3 km (2 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) from Mexico City (c. 12 294 200 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Iztapalapa (c. 1 820 900 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Ecatepec (c. 1 806 200 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl (c. 1 232 200 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Gustavo A. Madero (c. 1 193 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tetela del Volcán, Ajacuba, Coatetelco (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

How would you describe the shaking?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 2 km SW of Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico.

Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.22° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.41° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SW of Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-17 03:59:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-17 04:30:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 136 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70004m0y Id of event.
Event Code 70004m0y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004m0y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply