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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Suchiapa in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.5413S, -93.2507WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Suchiapa in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -93.2507° West, latitude 16.5413° North, depth = 168.03 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/10/16 / 2016-10-21 10:49:48 / October 21, 2016 @ 10:49 am. The temblor was picked up at 05:49:48 / 5:49 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20007fvp. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007fvp. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 168.03 km (104 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 28 km (18 miles) from Tuxtla Gutiérrez (c. 481 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from San Cristóbal de las Casas (c. 129 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Cintalapa de Figueroa (c. 33 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 31 km (20 miles) from Chiapa de Corzo (c. 32 200 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Ocozocoautla de Espinosa (c. 31 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Angel Albino Corzo, El Espinal, Chanal (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km WSW of Suchiapa, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.2507° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.5413° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 168.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km WSW of Suchiapa, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-21 10:49:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-21 11:12:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 1.099 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us20007fvp Id of event.
Event Code 20007fvp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007fvp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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