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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Puerto Madero in Mexico

Posted by admin on December 1, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.7604S, -92.3341WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico on Friday. Global time and date of event 13/11/15 / 2015-11-13 21:13:24 / November 13, 2015 @ 9:13 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -92.3341 West, latitude 14.7604 North, depth = 101.56 km. Unique identifier: us10003yyv. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003yyv. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:13:24 / 3:13 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 101.56 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mazatenango, San Andrés Xecul, Zunil. Epicenter of the earthquake was 18 km (11 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from San Pedro Sacatepéquez (c. 40 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 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 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km ENE of Puerto Madero, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.3341° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7604° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 101.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km ENE of Puerto Madero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-13 21:13:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-01 04:06:29 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 0.661 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us10003yyv Id of event.
Event Code 10003yyv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003yyv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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