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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Palomares in Mexico

Posted by admin on June 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.215S, -95.197WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Palomares in Mexico on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005xxy. Unique identifier: us20005xxy. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 120.6 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -95.197° West, 17.215° North, depth 120.6 km. The temblor was reported at 16:48:58 / 4:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/05/16 / 2016-05-25 21:48:58 / May 25, 2016 @ 9:48 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Unión Hidalgo, Soconusco, Juan Rodríguez Clara. Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Acayucan (c. 47 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Juan Rodríguez Clara (c. 14 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km WNW of Palomares, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.197° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.215° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 120.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km WNW of Palomares, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-25 21:48:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-12 03:14:11 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 284 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us20005xxy Id of event.
Event Code 20005xxy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005xxy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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