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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Puerto Madero in Mexico


Earthquake location 14.5025S, -92.6756WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70007k03. Unique identifier: us70007k03. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/01/20 / 2020-01-27 18:00:15 / January 27, 2020 @ 6:00 pm. The temblor was picked up at 12:00:15 / 12:00 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -92.6756° West, latitude 14.5025° North, depth = 35 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Malacatán (c. 14 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cacahoatán (c. 14 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acacoyahua, Escuintla, Coatepeque. Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 36 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.6756° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.5025° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km 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 2020-01-27 18:00:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-13 23:21:00 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 271 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 0.745 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us70007k03 Id of event.
Event Code 70007k03 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007k03, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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