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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near offshore Chiapas, Mexico

Posted by admin on March 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.1243S, -92.5099WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, offshore Chiapas, Mexico kilometers (0 miles) from offshore Chiapas, Mexico. The temblor was detected at 21:31:19 / 9:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -92.5099° West, 14.1243° North, depth 58.81 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 58.81 km (37 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004uie. Id of event: us10004uie. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/03/16 / 2016-03-03 21:31:19 / March 3, 2016 @ 9:31 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coatepeque, Tapachula, Flores Costa Cuca. Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Flores Costa Cuca (c. 12 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Ciudad Tecún Umán (c. 11 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: offshore Chiapas, 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 -92.5099° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.1243° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place offshore Chiapas, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-03 21:31:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-14 22:25:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.884 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us10004uie Id of event.
Event Code 10004uie An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004uie, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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