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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Santo Domingo Tehuantepec in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.3557S, -95.1785WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec in Mexico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -95.1785 West, latitude 16.3557 North, depth = 61.76 km. Id of earthquake: us2000azrj. Event ids that are associated: us2000azrj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61.76 km (38 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/09/17 / 2017-09-23 13:00:26 / September 23, 2017 @ 1:00 pm. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:00:26 / 7:00 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santo Domingo Zanatepec, San Francisco Ixhuatan, Colonia Rincón Viejo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 19 km (12 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-three, in the last 10 days seventy-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km ENE of Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.1785° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.3557° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km ENE of Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-23 13:00:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-22 16:48:15 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 369 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 1.067 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us2000azrj Id of event.
Event Code 2000azrj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000azrj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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