Earthquake: M 4.2 quake strikes near Santiago Pinotepa Nacional in Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (mg/mb) has striked on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional in Mexico. The temblor was reported at 22:56:47 / 10:56 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 4.2 km (3 miles). Global time of event 19/02/15 / 2015-02-19 04:56:47 / February 19, 2015 @ 4:56 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -98.033 West, latitude 16.259 North, depth 4.2 km, unique identifier, usc000trdx.

Close countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). The epicenter was 9 km (6 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Putla Villa de Guerrero (c. 9 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria (c. 9 400 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Marquelia, Putla Villa de Guerrero, Santa Catarina Juquila.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.033° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	16.259° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km SSW of Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-02-19 04:56:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-03-09 01:25:18	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	usc000trdx	Id of event.
Event Code	c000trdx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,usc000trdx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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