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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near San Luis Acatlan in Mexico

Posted by admin on January 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.8329S, -98.7661WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from San Luis Acatlan in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:50:23 / 7:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/01/16 / 2016-01-16 01:50:23 / January 16, 2016 @ 1:50 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004f03. Unique identifier: us10004f03. Exact location of earthquake, -98.7661° West, 16.8329° North, depth 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Ocotito, Putla Villa de Guerrero, Tierra Colorada. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Tlapa de Comonfort (c. 36 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Malinaltepec (c. 26 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Marcos (c. 12 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Tierra Colorada (c. 10 200 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Ayutla de los Libres (c. 9 900 pop).

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 twenty-two 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 3 km WNW of San Luis Acatlan, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7661° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.8329° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WNW of San Luis Acatlan, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-16 01:50:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-16 03:44:55 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 271 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 0.75 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 285 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 us10004f03 Id of event.
Event Code 10004f03 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004f03, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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