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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 11 km ESE of Palomares, Mexico


Earthquake location 17.1233S, -94.9581WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (mg/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Palomares in Mexico. The temblor was reported at 02:25:27 / 2:25 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 118.8 km (74 miles). Global time of event 09/06/15 / 2015-06-09 07:25:27 / June 9, 2015 @ 7:25 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -94.9581 West, latitude 17.1233 North, depth 118.8 km, unique identifier, us20002n6x. Ids that are associated to the event, ,us20002n6x,.

Close countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Acayucan (c. 47 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Oluta (c. 11 500 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acayucan, Las Amilpas, Oluta.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.9581° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.1233° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km ESE of Palomares, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-09 07:25:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-23 16:03:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 284 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 2.83 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us20002n6x Id of event.
Event Code 20002n6x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002n6x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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