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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 5 km NNW of Cuajinicuilapa, Mexico


Earthquake location 16.5166S, -98.4366WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa in Mexico on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.69 km (15 miles). The temblor was picked up at 18:33:21 / 6:33 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us200060y4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200060y4. Exact location, longitude -98.4366° West, latitude 16.5166° North, depth = 24.69 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/05/16 / 2016-05-14 23:33:21 / May 14, 2016 @ 11:33 pm.

Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ayutla de los Libres, Malinaltepec, Putla Villa de Guerrero. The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Malinaltepec (c. 26 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Ayutla de los Libres (c. 9 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cruz Grande (c. 9 900 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 5 km NNW of Cuajinicuilapa, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.4366° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.5166° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NNW of Cuajinicuilapa, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-14 23:33:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-08 00:39:30 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 259 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 0.321 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 us200060y4 Id of event.
Event Code 200060y4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200060y4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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