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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 7 km NNW of Pinotepa de Don Luis, Mexico

Posted by admin on June 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.476S, -97.9403WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Pinotepa de Don Luis in Mexico. All ids that are associated to the event: us200067sc. Unique identifier: us200067sc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 18:36:50 / 6:36 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 28/06/16 / 2016-06-28 23:36:50 / June 28, 2016 @ 11:36 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.9403 West, latitude 16.476 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby 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 Santiago Juxtlahuaca, Marquelia, Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco. Epicenter of the earthquake was 20 km (12 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 17 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 14 600 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Putla Villa de Guerrero (c. 9 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria (c. 9 400 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-three 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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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: 7 km NNW of Pinotepa de Don Luis, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.9403° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.476° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NNW of Pinotepa de Don Luis, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-28 23:36:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-29 00:47:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 312 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 1.235 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 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 us200067sc Id of event.
Event Code 200067sc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200067sc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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