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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near San Vicente Coatlan in Mexico

Posted by admin on May 20, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.4908S, -97.0772WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from San Vicente Coatlan in Mexico on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/05/16 / 2016-05-20 10:24:51 / May 20, 2016 @ 10:24 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10005is7. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005is7. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.0772 West, latitude 16.4908 North, depth = 32.13 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 32.13 km (20 miles). The temblor was reported at 05:24:51 / 5:24 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Oaxaca de Juárez (c. 262 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán (c. 61 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Antonio de la Cal (c. 20 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 19 500 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (c. 17 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Villa de Zaachila (c. 14 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Francisco Telixtlahuaca, San Pablo Villa de Mitla, Santiago Suchilquitongo (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two and in the last 365 days seventeen 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. 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: 28 km WNW of San Vicente Coatlan, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.0772° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.4908° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km WNW of San Vicente Coatlan, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-20 10:24:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-20 11:11:20 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 1.779 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us10005is7 Id of event.
Event Code 10005is7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005is7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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