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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 1 km WSW of El Embarcadero, Mexico


Earthquake location 16.9608S, -100.0127WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from El Embarcadero in Mexico on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 17:22:53 / 5:22 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000ak87. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ak87. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/07/20 / 2020-07-08 17:22:53 / July 8, 2020 @ 5:22 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -100.0127 West, latitude 16.9608 North, depth = 35 km.

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Acapulco de Juárez (c. 652 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Chilpancingo de los Bravos (c. 165 300 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Atoyac de Álvarez (c. 21 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Zumpango del Río (c. 21 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Tixtla de Guerrero (c. 21 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Tecpan de Galeana (c. 14 600 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Coyuca de Benítez (c. 12 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quechultenango, Tixtla de Guerrero, Zumpango del Río (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 1 km WSW of El Embarcadero, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -100.0127° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.9608° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km WSW of El Embarcadero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-08 17:22:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-08 19:29:24 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 312 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 1.505 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 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 us7000ak87 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ak87 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ak87, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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