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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Matias Romero in Mexico

Posted by admin on December 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.8193S, -94.8979WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Matias Romero in Mexico on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.64 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 04:41:06 / 4:41 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/12/17 / 2017-12-18 10:41:06 / December 18, 2017 @ 10:41 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -94.8979° West, 16.8193° North, depth 19.64 km. Event id: us2000c5jv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000c5jv.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chahuite, San Pedro Tapanatepec, Salina Cruz. Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km ESE of Matias Romero, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.8979° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.8193° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ESE of Matias Romero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-18 10:41:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-18 13:44:12 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 312 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 2.701 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us2000c5jv Id of event.
Event Code 2000c5jv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c5jv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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