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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 29 km SE of Nueva Palestina, Mexico

Posted by admin on July 14, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.6116S, -92.5516WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Nueva Palestina in Mexico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002xdk. Id of event: us20002xdk. Exact location of event, longitude -92.5516 West, latitude 15.6116 North, depth = 147.61 km. Global time and date of event 14/07/15 / 2015-07-14 13:14:11 / July 14, 2015 @ 1:14 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 147.61 km (92 miles). The temblor was reported at 08:14:11 / 8:14 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto Madero, Villa Corzo, Las Margaritas (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Las Margaritas (c. 103 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Comitán (c. 79 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Jacaltenango (c. 34 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Motozintla de Mendoza (c. 19 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Frontera Comalapa (c. 18 700 pop). Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 29 km SE of Nueva Palestina, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.5516° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.6116° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 147.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km SE of Nueva Palestina, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-14 13:14:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-14 15:50:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 355 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 0.776 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us20002xdk Id of event.
Event Code 20002xdk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002xdk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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