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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Cacaotepec in Mexico

Posted by admin on December 6, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.1554S, -96.8615WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Cacaotepec in Mexico on Monday. Event id: us1000blnb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000blnb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 00:04:24 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -96.8615° West, 17.1554° North, depth 73.57 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 73.57 km (46 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/11/17 / 2017-11-13 06:04:24 / November 13, 2017 @ 6:04 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Juan Bautista Valle Nacional, San Felipe Usila, Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco. The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Oaxaca de Juárez (c. 262 600 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán (c. 61 800 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from San Antonio de la Cal (c. 20 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 17 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 14 600 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Villa de Zaachila (c. 14 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four 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.

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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. 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: 6 km WNW of Cacaotepec, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.8615° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.1554° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km WNW of Cacaotepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-13 06:04:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-06 07:35:25 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 2 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 259 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 0.148 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us1000blnb Id of event.
Event Code 1000blnb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000blnb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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