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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Suchiate in Mexico

Posted by admin on February 4, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.5612S, -92.1946WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Suchiate in Mexico. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:08:36 / 12:08 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20004xfs. Unique identifier: us20004xfs. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -92.1946 West, latitude 14.5612 North, depth = 63.46 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 63.46 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/02/16 / 2016-02-04 18:08:36 / February 4, 2016 @ 6:08 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chicacao, Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán, San Francisco El Alto. The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from San Francisco El Alto (c. 54 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from San Pedro Sacatepéquez (c. 40 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km ENE of Suchiate, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.1946° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.5612° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ENE of Suchiate, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-04 18:08:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-04 21:51:10 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 0.485 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us20004xfs Id of event.
Event Code 20004xfs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004xfs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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