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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Puerto Angel in Mexico

Posted by admin on January 25, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.5374S, -96.3999WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Puerto Angel in Mexico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.3999 West, latitude 15.5374 North, depth = 27.72 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 27.72 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 08:03:30 / 8:03 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004d1y. Unique identifier: us10004d1y. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/12/15 / 2015-12-29 14:03:30 / December 29, 2015 @ 2:03 pm.

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, Puerto Escondido, Brisas de Zicatela (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (51 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 19 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (c. 17 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from San Pedro Pochutla (c. 13 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Brisas de Zicatela (c. 9 800 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Santa María Xadani (c. 5 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Santa María Huatulco (c. 5 500 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km SSE of Puerto Angel, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.3999° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.5374° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km SSE of Puerto Angel, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-29 14:03:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-25 20:56:51 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 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 0.362 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us10004d1y Id of event.
Event Code 10004d1y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004d1y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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