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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Santa Catarina Mechoacan in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 12, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.4663S, -97.6648WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Santa Catarina Mechoacan in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 54.35 km (34 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -97.6648 West, latitude 16.4663 North, depth = 54.35 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:44:19 / 6:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/10/17 / 2017-10-12 00:44:19 / October 12, 2017 @ 12:44 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000aqjs. Unique identifier: us1000aqjs.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ejutla de Crespo, Brisas de Zicatela, Puerto Escondido (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 19 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 17 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 14 600 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Brisas de Zicatela (c. 9 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 23 km NE of Santa Catarina Mechoacan, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6648° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.4663° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NE of Santa Catarina Mechoacan, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-12 00:44:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-12 01:04:51 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 354 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 3.191 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 159 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 us1000aqjs Id of event.
Event Code 1000aqjs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000aqjs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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