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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Coahuayana in Mexico

Posted by admin on April 26, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4891S, -103.3987WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Coahuayana in Mexico on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 07:04:09 / 7:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/04/16 / 2016-04-26 12:04:09 / April 26, 2016 @ 12:04 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -103.3987° West, 18.4891° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005blp. Id of event: us10005blp.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Colima (c. 127 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Ciudad de Villa de Álvarez (c. 117 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Tecoman (c. 79 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Armeria (c. 17 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Tepalcatepec (c. 15 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Coquimatlán (c. 13 100 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Coalcomán de Vázquez Pallares (c. 10 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Comala, Tepalcatepec, Cuauhtémoc (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 40 km SE of Coahuayana, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.3987° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4891° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km SE of Coahuayana, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-26 12:04:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-26 12:49:05 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 354 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 4.082 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 183 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 us10005blp Id of event.
Event Code 10005blp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005blp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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