Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Tapachula in Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Tapachula in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008wg3. Unique identifier: us10008wg3. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48.7 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -92.3107 West, latitude 14.7903 North, depth = 48.7 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/05/17 / 2017-05-13 12:03:42 / May 13, 2017 @ 12:03 pm. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:03:42 / 6:03 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Libertad, Salcajá, Cantel. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). The epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from San Pedro Sacatepéquez (c. 40 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop).

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 four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 12 km SSW of Tapachula, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-92.3107° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.7903° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	48.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km SSW of Tapachula, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-13 12:03:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-02 06:23:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	285	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	0.652	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	202	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	us10008wg3	Id of event.
Event Code	10008wg3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008wg3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.3 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-92.3107° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

14.7903° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

48.7 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

12km SSW of Tapachula, Mexico

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2017-05-13 12:03:42

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-06-02 06:23:09

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

3.1

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

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

285

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.652

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.96 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

202

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us10008wg3

Id of event.

Event Code

10008wg3

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us10008wg3,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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