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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Tierra Colorada in Mexico

Posted by admin on December 25, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.188S, -99.689WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Tierra Colorada in Mexico on Monday. Unique identifier: us1000bw54. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bw54. Exact location of event, depth 55.61 km, -99.689° West, 17.188° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 55.61 km (35 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/12/17 / 2017-12-25 20:23:13 / December 25, 2017 @ 8:23 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 14:23:13 / 2:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Copala, San Jerónimo de Juárez, Cruz Grande. Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Acapulco de Juárez (c. 652 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Chilpancingo de los Bravos (c. 165 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Chilapa de Alvarez (c. 23 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Atoyac de Álvarez (c. 21 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Zumpango del Río (c. 21 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Tixtla de Guerrero (c. 21 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Coyuca de Benítez (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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: 11 km WNW of Tierra Colorada, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.689° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.188° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km WNW of Tierra Colorada, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-25 20:23:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-25 20:48:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 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 345 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 1.134 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 191 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 us1000bw54 Id of event.
Event Code 1000bw54 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bw54, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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