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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Jalisco, Mexico

Posted by admin on May 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 20.8509S, -103.3575WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes Jalisco, Mexico kilometers (0 miles) from Jalisco, Mexico on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10005gn4. Event ids that are associated: us10005gn4. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -103.3575° West, latitude 20.8509° North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/05/16 / 2016-05-11 22:35:20 / May 11, 2016 @ 10:35 pm. The temblor was reported at 22:35:20 / 10:35 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jalpa, Atoyac, Atotonilco el Alto (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 21 km (13 miles) from Guadalajara (c. 1 640 600 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Zapopan (c. 987 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Tlaquepaque (c. 493 600 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Tonalá (c. 401 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hacienda Santa Fe (c. 86 900 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Tepatitlán de Morelos (c. 83 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ocotlán (c. 81 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Jalisco, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.3575° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.8509° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Jalisco, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-11 22:35:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-11 22:58:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 31 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.7 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 326 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 2.045 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 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 us10005gn4 Id of event.
Event Code 10005gn4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005gn4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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