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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Paredon in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.9352S, -94.1773WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Paredon in Mexico on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 08:45:21 / 8:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -94.1773 West, latitude 15.9352 North, depth = 63.73 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/05/16 / 2016-05-31 13:45:21 / May 31, 2016 @ 1:45 pm. Id of earthquake: us200061l6. Event ids that are associated: us200061l6. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 63.73 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Unión Hidalgo, San Mateo del Mar, Las Amilpas (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from El Espinal (c. 7 600 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-one 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km WSW of Paredon, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.1773° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.9352° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km WSW of Paredon, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-31 13:45:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-22 20:28:20 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 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 0.95 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us200061l6 Id of event.
Event Code 200061l6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200061l6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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