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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near San Mateo del Mar in Mexico

Posted by admin on November 5, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.1751S, -95.0489WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 14/10/17 / 2017-10-14 19:33:41 / October 14, 2017 @ 7:33 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -95.0489° West, 16.1751° North. Id of earthquake: us2000bglv. Event ids that are associated: us2000bglv. The temblor was reported at 13:33:41 / 1:33 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 16 km (10 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santo Domingo Zanatepec, Colonia Rincón Viejo, Matías Romero (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days ninety-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km WSW of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.0489° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.1751° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km WSW of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-14 19:33:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-05 01:04:24 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 222 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 0.924 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us2000bglv Id of event.
Event Code 2000bglv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bglv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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