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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near San Juan Evangelista in Mexico

Posted by admin on March 17, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.795S, -95.2951WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from San Juan Evangelista in Mexico. Unique identifier: us1000d5kp. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000d5kp. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 112.2 km (70 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/03/18 / 2018-03-17 07:39:18 / March 17, 2018 @ 7:39 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -95.2951° West, latitude 17.795° North, depth = 112.2 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:39:18 / 1:39 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tuxtepec, Angel R. Cabadas, Lomas de Barrillas (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Minatitlan (c. 150 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Tuxtepec (c. 92 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from San Andres Tuxtla (c. 55 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Acayucan (c. 47 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Cosamaloapan de Carpio (c. 28 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Catemaco (c. 24 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km SW of San Juan Evangelista, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.2951° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.795° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 112.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SW of San Juan Evangelista, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-17 07:39:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-17 08:17:31 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 3.127 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us1000d5kp Id of event.
Event Code 1000d5kp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d5kp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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