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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 39 km WNW of Cintalapa de Figueroa, Mexico


Earthquake location 16.8335S, -94.0738WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Cintalapa de Figueroa in Mexico. The temblor was picked up at 13:02:07 / 1:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -94.0738 West, latitude 16.8335 North, depth = 152.01 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 152.01 km (94 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 18/12/16 / 2016-12-18 19:02:07 / December 18, 2016 @ 7:02 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us200082eg. Unique identifier: us200082eg.

Event epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Cintalapa de Figueroa (c. 33 500 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Ocozocoautla de Espinosa (c. 31 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Berriozábal (c. 21 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Fernando, Unión Hidalgo, Paredón (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 39 km WNW of Cintalapa de Figueroa, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.0738° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.8335° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 152.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km WNW of Cintalapa de Figueroa, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-18 19:02:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-18 20:43:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 298 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 1.936 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us200082eg Id of event.
Event Code 200082eg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200082eg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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