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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Ixhuatan in Mexico

Posted by admin on March 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.4473S, -94.5049WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Ixhuatan in Mexico. Global time and date of event 18/03/18 / 2018-03-18 02:31:20 / March 18, 2018 @ 2:31 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000d5z8. Unique identifier: us1000d5z8. The epicenter was at a depth of 77.86 km (48 miles). The temblor was detected at 20:31:20 / 8:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -94.5049 West, latitude 16.4473 North, depth = 77.86 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Cintalapa de Figueroa (c. 33 500 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tonalá, Cintalapa de Figueroa, Paredón (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 10 km NNW of Ixhuatan, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.5049° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.4473° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NNW of Ixhuatan, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-18 02:31:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-18 03:09:04 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 259 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 2.279 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 207 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 us1000d5z8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d5z8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d5z8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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