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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 93 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico


Earthquake location 14.2459S, -93.1379WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico. Exact location, longitude -93.1379° West, latitude 14.2459° North, depth = 53.68 km. Global time and date of event 06/03/20 / 2020-03-06 20:30:46 / March 6, 2020 @ 8:30 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 14:30:46 / 2:30 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 53.68 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us60008bc6. Unique identifier: us60008bc6.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mazatán, Puerto Madero (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Mazatán (c. 5 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 93 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.1379° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.2459° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km 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 2020-03-06 20:30:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-06 20:47:15 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 369 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 1.425 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us60008bc6 Id of event.
Event Code 60008bc6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008bc6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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