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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Tomatlan in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 15, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.3483S, -105.3241WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Tomatlan in Mexico. Event id: us10003nrr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003nrr. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/10/15 / 2015-10-15 00:48:22 / October 15, 2015 @ 12:48 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 17:48:22 / 5:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -105.3241° West, latitude 19.3483° North, depth = 35 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Cihuatlán (c. 16 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Tomatlán (c. 8 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from La Huerta (c. 7 600 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from San Patricio (c. 6 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Las Juntas (c. 6 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cihuatlán, La Huerta, San Patricio (min 5000 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 65 km S of Tomatlan, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -105.3241° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3483° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km S of Tomatlan, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-15 00:48:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-15 01:21:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 312 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 3.876 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 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 us10003nrr Id of event.
Event Code 10003nrr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003nrr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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