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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Salina Cruz in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 15, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.7622S, -95.2872WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Salina Cruz in Mexico on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000az6q. Unique identifier: us2000az6q. The temblor was picked up at 09:01:52 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/09/17 / 2017-09-16 15:01:52 / September 16, 2017 @ 3:01 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -95.2872 West, latitude 15.7622 North, depth = 27.02 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 27.02 km (17 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa María Xadani, Asunción Ixtaltepec, El Espinal (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Jalapa (c. 8 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from El Espinal (c. 7 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Asunción Ixtaltepec (c. 7 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 45 km SSW of Salina Cruz, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.2872° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.7622° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km 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 2017-09-16 15:01:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-15 15:43:18 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 0.79 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us2000az6q Id of event.
Event Code 2000az6q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000az6q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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