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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Asuncion Ixtaltepec in Mexico

Posted by admin on April 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.5379S, -94.9559WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Asuncion Ixtaltepec in Mexico on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 08:56:59 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000duza. Unique identifier: us2000duza. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55.53 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/04/18 / 2018-04-05 14:56:59 / April 5, 2018 @ 2:56 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 55.53 km, -94.9559° West, 16.5379° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Espinal, Chahuite, San Pedro Tapanatepec (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 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 two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days two hundred and one 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 10 km ENE of Asuncion Ixtaltepec, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.9559° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.5379° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km ENE of Asuncion Ixtaltepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-05 14:56:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-09 17:07:15 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 3.726 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 us2000duza Id of event.
Event Code 2000duza An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000duza, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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