Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Salina Cruz in Mexico

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Salina Cruz in Mexico on Thursday. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:53:08 / 1:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -95.4155 West, latitude 15.6751 North, depth = 14.77 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a0wh. Id of event: us2000a0wh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 20/07/17 / 2017-07-20 19:53:08 / July 20, 2017 @ 7:53 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.77 km (9 miles).

Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Santa María Xadani (c. 5 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from San Mateo del Mar (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Crucecita, Santa María Xadani, San Mateo del Mar (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 59 km SSW of Salina Cruz, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.4155° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.6751° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59km SSW of Salina Cruz, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-07-20 19:53:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-17 22:16:36	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	246	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	0.673	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	171	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	us2000a0wh	Id of event.
Event Code	2000a0wh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000a0wh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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