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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near El Morro in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.1283S, -95.4813WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from El Morro in Mexico on Tuesday. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:31:09 / 4:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -95.4813° West, 16.1283° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/06/20 / 2020-06-23 16:31:09 / June 23, 2020 @ 4:31 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ahbh. Id of event: us6000ahbh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Colonia Rincón Viejo, Las Amilpas, Matías Romero (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 11 km WNW of El Morro, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.4813° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.1283° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km WNW of El Morro, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-23 16:31:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-23 17:24:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 326 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 3.216 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us6000ahbh Id of event.
Event Code 6000ahbh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ahbh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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