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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Santa Cruz Xitla in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.0988S, -96.7416WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Santa Cruz Xitla in Mexico on Saturday. Event id: us2000a588. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a588. The temblor was picked up at 14:28:01 / 2:28 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 29.42 km (18 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.7416 West, latitude 16.0988 North, depth = 29.42 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/08/17 / 2017-08-05 20:28:01 / August 5, 2017 @ 8:28 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Villa de Zaachila, Vicente Guerrero, Trinidad Zaachila. The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 19 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (c. 17 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Villa de Zaachila (c. 14 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Vicente Guerrero (c. 13 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from San Pedro Pochutla (c. 13 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Trinidad Zaachila (c. 12 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 25 km SSW of Santa Cruz Xitla, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.7416° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.0988° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km SSW of Santa Cruz Xitla, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-05 20:28:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-05 21:22:08 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 312 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 3.964 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 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 us2000a588 Id of event.
Event Code 2000a588 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a588, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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