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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Palomares in Mexico

Posted by admin on May 13, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.1595S, -94.9924WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Palomares in Mexico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 113.29 km (70 miles). Exact location, longitude -94.9924° West, latitude 17.1595° North, depth = 113.29 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/05/18 / 2018-05-13 17:10:41 / May 13, 2018 @ 5:10 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e468. Id of event: us1000e468. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 11:10:41 / 11:10 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, Coacotla, Soconusco. The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Acayucan (c. 47 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Oluta (c. 11 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km E of Palomares, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.9924° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.1595° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km E of Palomares, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-13 17:10:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-13 18:44:43 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 312 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 2.872 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us1000e468 Id of event.
Event Code 1000e468 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e468, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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