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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Cuautepec in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.9105S, -98.9506WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Cuautepec in Mexico on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64.28 km (40 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/12/15 / 2015-12-07 09:44:09 / December 7, 2015 @ 9:44 am. Id of earthquake: us100044la. Event ids that are associated: us100044la. Exact location, longitude -98.9506° West, latitude 16.9105° North, depth = 64.28 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 03:44:09 / 3:44 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Chilpancingo de los Bravos (c. 165 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Tlapa de Comonfort (c. 36 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Malinaltepec (c. 26 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Chilapa de Alvarez (c. 23 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Tixtla de Guerrero (c. 21 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from San Marcos (c. 12 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Olinalá, Atliaca, Chilpancingo de los Bravos (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km NNE of Cuautepec, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.9506° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.9105° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NNE of Cuautepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-07 09:44:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-07 10:06:32 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 340 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 2.415 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208 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 us100044la Id of event.
Event Code 100044la An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100044la, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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