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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Putla de Guerrero in Mexico

Posted by admin on February 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.8592S, -97.6634WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Putla de Guerrero in Mexico on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/02/18 / 2018-02-28 12:30:05 / February 28, 2018 @ 12:30 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000d94f. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d94f. The temblor was picked up at 06:30:05 / 6:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -97.6634 West, latitude 16.8592 North, depth = 10 km.

The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 17 500 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 14 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Cuilapan de Guerrero (c. 10 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Zimatlán de Álvarez (c. 10 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cuilapan de Guerrero, Santiago Suchilquitongo, San Francisco Telixtlahuaca. Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 34 km SE of Putla de Guerrero, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6634° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.8592° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SE of Putla de Guerrero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-28 12:30:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-28 13:05:02 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 298 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 1.111 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us2000d94f Id of event.
Event Code 2000d94f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d94f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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