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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near San Mateo del Mar in Mexico

Posted by admin on February 25, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.1433S, -94.9013WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/02/18 / 2018-02-24 15:11:49 / February 24, 2018 @ 3:11 pm. The temblor was picked up at 09:11:49 / 9:11 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000d7e7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d7e7. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 96.37 km (60 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -94.9013 West, latitude 16.1433 North, depth = 96.37 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Espinal, Colonia Rincón Viejo, Matías Romero (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 12 km ESE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.9013° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.1433° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 96.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km ESE 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 2018-02-24 15:11:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-25 13:54:08 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 284 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 2.659 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us2000d7e7 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d7e7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d7e7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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