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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Mundo Nuevo in Mexico


Earthquake location 18.8266S, -95.54WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Mundo Nuevo in Mexico on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -95.54 West, latitude 18.8266 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 00:00:44 / 12:00 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/04/20 / 2020-04-13 06:00:44 / April 13, 2020 @ 6:00 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008vcf. Unique identifier: us70008vcf.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fraccionamiento Geovillas los Pinos, Las Amapolas, Tesechoacan. Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (46 miles) from Veracruz (c. 568 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from San Andres Tuxtla (c. 55 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Cosamaloapan de Carpio (c. 28 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from La Isla (c. 24 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Catemaco (c. 24 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Heroica Alvarado (c. 21 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km NNW of Mundo Nuevo, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.54° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8266° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NNW of Mundo Nuevo, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-13 06:00:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-13 07:13:51 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 3.139 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us70008vcf Id of event.
Event Code 70008vcf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008vcf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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