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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Puerto Madero in Mexico

Posted by admin on June 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.5717S, -92.7183WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -92.7183 West, latitude 14.5717 North, depth = 40.99 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005jl2. Unique identifier: us10005jl2. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40.99 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 20:10:39 / 8:10 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/05/16 / 2016-05-16 02:10:39 / May 16, 2016 @ 2:10 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coatepeque, Flores Costa Cuca, Champerico (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Malacatán (c. 14 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Cacahoatán (c. 14 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 35 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.7183° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.5717° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-16 02:10:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-03 02:48:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 0.551 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us10005jl2 Id of event.
Event Code 10005jl2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005jl2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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