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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 29 km SSW of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico

Posted by admin on January 2, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.9744S, -94.7307WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 29 kilometers (18 miles) from San Francisco del Mar in Mexico on Tuesday. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:48:39 / 3:48 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000byz4. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000byz4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.07 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/01/18 / 2018-01-02 09:48:39 / January 2, 2018 @ 9:48 am. Exact location, longitude -94.7307° West, latitude 15.9744° North, depth = 55.07 km.

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jalapa, Arriaga, Paredón (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop).

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 five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 29 km SSW of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.7307° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.9744° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km SSW of San Francisco 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 2018-01-02 09:48:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-02 10:27:36 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 2.7 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 326 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 2.511 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us1000byz4 Id of event.
Event Code 1000byz4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000byz4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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