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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Nueva Palestina in Mexico

Posted by admin on April 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.689S, -92.5692WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Nueva Palestina in Mexico. Exact location of event, depth 143.24 km, -92.5692° West, 15.689° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 143.24 km (89 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/04/18 / 2018-04-13 14:58:02 / April 13, 2018 @ 2:58 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000dzqj. Id of event: us2000dzqj. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:58:02 / 8:58 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tapachula, Villa Corzo, Mazatán (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Comitán (c. 79 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Jacaltenango (c. 34 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Motozintla de Mendoza (c. 19 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Frontera Comalapa (c. 18 700 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km ESE of Nueva Palestina, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.5692° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.689° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 143.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km ESE of Nueva Palestina, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-13 14:58:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-20 07:02:57 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 0.721 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us2000dzqj Id of event.
Event Code 2000dzqj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dzqj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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