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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Tamulte de las Sabanas in Mexico


Earthquake location 18.28S, -92.6775WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Tamulte de las Sabanas in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 31/08/19 / 2019-08-31 00:09:15 / August 31, 2019 @ 12:09 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us70005afz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005afz. The temblor was detected at 18:09:15 / 6:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -92.6775 West, latitude 18.28 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Huimanguillo, Pueblo Juárez, Teapa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Villahermosa (c. 362 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Cárdenas (c. 85 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Comalcalco (c. 41 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Macuspana (c. 30 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Huimanguillo (c. 26 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Río de Teapa (c. 26 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 13 km ENE of Tamulte de las Sabanas, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.6775° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.28° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km ENE of Tamulte de las Sabanas, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-31 00:09:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-31 00:29:05 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 259 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 2.053 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us70005afz Id of event.
Event Code 70005afz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005afz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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