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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 19 km WNW of Hueyapan de Ocampo, Mexico

Posted by admin on February 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2128S, -95.3181WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Hueyapan de Ocampo in Mexico. The temblor was detected at 22:56:52 / 10:56 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/01/16 / 2016-01-30 04:56:52 / January 30, 2016 @ 4:56 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 44.31 km (28 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -95.3181 West, latitude 18.2128 North, depth = 44.31 km. Event id: us20004wvn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004wvn.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coatzacoalcos, Tuxtepec, Minatitlan. Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Coatzacoalcos (c. 230 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Minatitlan (c. 150 900 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Tuxtepec (c. 92 100 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from San Andres Tuxtla (c. 55 700 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Acayucan (c. 47 000 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Cosamaloapan de Carpio (c. 28 800 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 19 km WNW of Hueyapan de Ocampo, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.3181° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2128° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km WNW of Hueyapan de Ocampo, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-30 04:56:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-19 01:14:51 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 284 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 1.19 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us20004wvn Id of event.
Event Code 20004wvn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004wvn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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