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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Puerto Escondido in Mexico

Posted by admin on July 11, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.9494S, -96.738WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Puerto Escondido in Mexico. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/07/15 / 2015-07-10 23:51:14 / July 10, 2015 @ 11:51 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002wps. Id of event: us20002wps. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -96.738 West, latitude 15.9494 North, depth = 25.66 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:51:14 / 6:51 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 25.66 km (16 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Pablo Huixtepec, Ayoquezco de Aldama, San Miguel Panixtlahuaca (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 19 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (c. 17 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from San Pedro Pochutla (c. 13 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Brisas de Zicatela (c. 9 800 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from San Pablo Huixtepec (c. 8 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Ejutla de Crespo (c. 8 100 pop).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 36 km ENE of Puerto Escondido, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.738° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.9494° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km ENE of Puerto Escondido, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-10 23:51:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-11 00:16:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 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 2.375 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us20002wps Id of event.
Event Code 20002wps An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002wps, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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