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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Coalcoman de Matamoros in Mexico

Posted by admin on April 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.525S, -103.3629WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Coalcoman de Matamoros in Mexico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 71.07 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -103.3629° West, 18.525° North, depth 71.07 km. The temblor was reported at 03:06:34 / 3:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/04/16 / 2016-04-30 08:06:34 / April 30, 2016 @ 8:06 am UTC/GMT. 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: us10005cp8. Id of event: us10005cp8.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cuauhtémoc, Ciudad de Villa de Álvarez, Tepalcatepec. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Colima (c. 127 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Ciudad de Villa de Álvarez (c. 117 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Tecoman (c. 79 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Armeria (c. 17 000 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Tepalcatepec (c. 15 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Coquimatlán (c. 13 100 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 36 km SW of Coalcoman de Matamoros, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.3629° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.525° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 71.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km SW of Coalcoman de Matamoros, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-30 08:06:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-30 08:34:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 4.041 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 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 us10005cp8 Id of event.
Event Code 10005cp8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005cp8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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