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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Puerto Madero in Mexico

Posted by admin on January 23, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.4837S, -92.8999WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/01/17 / 2017-01-03 07:34:26 / January 3, 2017 @ 7:34 am. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:34:26 / 1:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -92.8999 West, latitude 14.4837 North, depth = 42.97 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 42.97 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10007pfc. Event ids that are associated: us10007pfc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acapeteahua, Villa Comaltitlán, Huixtla (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ciudad Tecún Umán (c. 11 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Ocós (c. 9 500 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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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: 57 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.8999° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.4837° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-03 07:34:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-23 14:13:41 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 259 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 1.167 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 207 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 us10007pfc Id of event.
Event Code 10007pfc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007pfc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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