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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Mapastepec in Mexico

Posted by admin on September 12, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.7209S, -93.6805WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 115 km SW of Mapastepec, Mexico (71 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -93.6805 West, latitude 14.7209 North, depth = 59.44 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 59.44 km (37 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003izp. Id of event: us20003izp. Global time and date of event 12/09/15 / 2015-09-12 04:27:37 / September 12, 2015 @ 4:27 am UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:27:37 / 10:27 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 115 km SW of Mapastepec, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.6805° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7209° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 115km SW of Mapastepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-12 04:27:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-12 04:57:12 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 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 1.932 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us20003izp Id of event.
Event Code 20003izp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003izp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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