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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Chiapilla in Mexico

Posted by admin on December 6, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.5044S, -92.7882WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Chiapilla in Mexico on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/12/15 / 2015-12-06 02:52:31 / December 6, 2015 @ 2:52 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us100044cp. Unique identifier: us100044cp. The epicenter was at a depth of 222.1 km (138 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:52:31 / 8:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -92.7882 West, latitude 16.5044 North, depth = 222.1 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jiquipilas, Chilón, Petalcingo. Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Tuxtla Gutiérrez (c. 481 100 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from San Cristóbal de las Casas (c. 129 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Las Margaritas (c. 103 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Comitán (c. 79 900 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Chiapa de Corzo (c. 32 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Ocozocoautla de Espinosa (c. 31 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 6 km WSW of Chiapilla, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.7882° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.5044° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 222.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km WSW of Chiapilla, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-06 02:52:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-06 03:07:42 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 298 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 0.663 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us100044cp Id of event.
Event Code 100044cp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100044cp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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