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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Santa Maria Zacatepec in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.6442S, -97.8561WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Santa Maria Zacatepec in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 14:06:26 / 2:06 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 20/07/16 / 2016-07-20 19:06:26 / July 20, 2016 @ 7:06 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us20006g9b. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006g9b. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 47.26 km (29 miles). Exact location, longitude -97.8561° West, latitude 16.6442° North, depth = 47.26 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Luis Acatlán, Santiago Juxtlahuaca, Santa Catarina Juquila (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 17 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 14 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Putla Villa de Guerrero (c. 9 500 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria (c. 9 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 19 km SE of Santa Maria Zacatepec, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8561° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.6442° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SE of Santa Maria Zacatepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-20 19:06:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-20 19:48:44 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 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 1.138 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us20006g9b Id of event.
Event Code 20006g9b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006g9b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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