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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Cuajinicuilapa in Mexico

Posted by admin on December 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.297S, -98.3235WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa in Mexico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/11/16 / 2016-11-24 08:55:43 / November 24, 2016 @ 8:55 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007c1v. Unique identifier: us10007c1v. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 02:55:43 / 2:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -98.3235° West, 16.297° North.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Putla Villa de Guerrero, Copala, San Luis Acatlán. Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Putla Villa de Guerrero (c. 9 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria (c. 9 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Luis Acatlán (c. 8 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 21 km SSE of Cuajinicuilapa, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.3235° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.297° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SSE of Cuajinicuilapa, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-24 08:55:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-21 12:45:48 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 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 0.211 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us10007c1v Id of event.
Event Code 10007c1v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007c1v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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