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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Juchitan de Zaragoza in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.3936S, -94.934WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Juchitan de Zaragoza in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 21:20:56 / 9:20 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/10/17 / 2017-10-30 03:20:56 / October 30, 2017 @ 3:20 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -94.934 West, latitude 16.3936 North, depth = 61.02 km. Event id: us1000ayfb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ayfb. The epicenter was at a depth of 61.02 km (38 miles).

The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Espinal, Chahuite, San Pedro Tapanatepec.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 four, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 9 km ESE of Juchitan de Zaragoza, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.934° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.3936° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km ESE of Juchitan de Zaragoza, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-30 03:20:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-30 03:57:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 272 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 3.471 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us1000ayfb Id of event.
Event Code 1000ayfb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ayfb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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