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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 5 km SE of Tulcingo del Valle, Mexico

Posted by admin on September 22, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0204S, -98.3951WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Tulcingo del Valle in Mexico on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.92 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10006rqb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006rqb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/09/16 / 2016-09-22 18:08:58 / September 22, 2016 @ 6:08 pm. Exact location of event, depth 50.92 km, -98.3951° West, 18.0204° North. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:08:58 / 1:08 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chilapa de Alvarez, Tamazulapam Villa del Progreso, Temoac (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Ciudad de Huajuapam de León (c. 47 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Izúcar de Matamoros (c. 42 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Tlapa de Comonfort (c. 36 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Malinaltepec (c. 26 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Chilapa de Alvarez (c. 23 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Axochiapan (c. 17 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Acatlán de Osorio (c. 16 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km SE of Tulcingo del Valle, 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 -98.3951° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0204° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SE of Tulcingo del Valle, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-22 18:08:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-22 23:30:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 0.483 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us10006rqb Id of event.
Event Code 10006rqb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006rqb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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