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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 86 km SSW of Tecpan de Galeana, Mexico


Earthquake location 16.5204S, -100.976WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Tecpan de Galeana in Mexico on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/07/16 / 2016-07-22 14:36:09 / July 22, 2016 @ 2:36 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.85 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:36:09 / 7:36 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20006gs2. Unique identifier: us20006gs2. Exact location of event, depth 15.85 km, -100.976° West, 16.5204° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Jerónimo de Juárez, El Súchil, Tecpan de Galeana. Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Tecpan de Galeana (c. 14 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Jerónimo de Juárez (c. 7 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from El Súchil (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 86 km SSW of Tecpan de Galeana, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -100.976° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.5204° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km SSW of Tecpan de Galeana, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-22 14:36:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-05 12:22:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 271 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 3.276 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 226 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 us20006gs2 Id of event.
Event Code 20006gs2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006gs2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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