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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near San Andres Huayapan in Mexico

Posted by admin on November 28, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.2577S, -96.6075WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from San Andres Huayapan in Mexico. Exact location of event, depth 66.56 km, -96.6075° West, 17.2577° North. 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 66.56 km (41 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/11/15 / 2015-11-28 18:20:20 / November 28, 2015 @ 6:20 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 12:20:20 / 12:20 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100041xd. Event ids that are associated: us100041xd.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Lucas Ojitlán, San Felipe Jalapa de Díaz, Ejutla de Crespo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Oaxaca de Juárez (c. 262 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán (c. 61 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from San Antonio de la Cal (c. 20 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Villa de Zaachila (c. 14 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Vicente Guerrero (c. 13 800 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Trinidad Zaachila (c. 12 200 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Tlacolula de Matamoros (c. 11 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 18 km NNE of San Andres Huayapan, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.6075° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.2577° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NNE of San Andres Huayapan, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-28 18:20:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-28 22:06:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 4.391 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us100041xd Id of event.
Event Code 100041xd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041xd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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