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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Tecpan de Galeana in Mexico

Posted by admin on May 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.2379S, -100.6634WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Tecpan de Galeana in Mexico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005izf. Id of event: us20005izf. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 93.37 km (58 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 93.37 km, -100.6634° West, 17.2379° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/04/16 / 2016-04-16 11:28:49 / April 16, 2016 @ 11:28 am. The temblor was picked up at 06:28:49 / 6:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acapulco de Juárez, San Jeronimito, Bajos del Ejido (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Acapulco de Juárez (c. 652 100 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Atoyac de Álvarez (c. 21 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Petatlán (c. 21 000 pop), 3 km (2 miles) from Tecpan de Galeana (c. 14 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Coyuca de Benítez (c. 12 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from San Jerónimo de Juárez (c. 7 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, 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 occurred nearby. Every 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.

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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. 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: 2 km ESE of Tecpan de Galeana, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -100.6634° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.2379° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 93.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ESE 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 2016-04-16 11:28:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-03 07:40:04 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 271 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 2.028 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 212 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 us20005izf Id of event.
Event Code 20005izf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005izf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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