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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Salina Cruz in Mexico

Posted by admin on August 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.0813S, -95.1048WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Salina Cruz in Mexico on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -95.1048 West, latitude 16.0813 North, depth = 52.4 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:01:29 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100069pu. Id of event: us100069pu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 52.4 km (33 miles). Global time and date of event 03/08/16 / 2016-08-03 12:01:29 / August 3, 2016 @ 12:01 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 15 km (10 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santo Domingo Zanatepec, Colonia Rincón Viejo, Matías Romero.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km SE of Salina Cruz, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.1048° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.0813° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SE of Salina Cruz, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-03 12:01:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-03 12:22:17 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 326 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 2.858 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us100069pu Id of event.
Event Code 100069pu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100069pu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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