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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Tecpan de Galeana in Mexico

Posted by admin on April 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.4471S, -100.7149WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Tecpan de Galeana in Mexico on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20005jbe. Event ids that are associated: us20005jbe. The temblor was reported at 18:39:28 / 6:39 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 42.43 km (26 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -100.7149° West, 17.4471° North, depth 42.43 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/04/16 / 2016-04-17 23:39:28 / April 17, 2016 @ 11:39 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Tlapehuala, Tlacotepec. Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo (c. 61 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Atoyac de Álvarez (c. 21 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Petatlán (c. 21 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Tecpan de Galeana (c. 14 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Coyuca de Benítez (c. 12 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Tlapehuala (c. 8 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 22 km N of Tecpan de Galeana, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -100.7149° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.4471° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km N of Tecpan de Galeana, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-17 23:39:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-18 00:44:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 2.053 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 207 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 us20005jbe Id of event.
Event Code 20005jbe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005jbe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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