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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near San Mateo del Mar in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.1314S, -94.9612WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico on Monday. The temblor was reported at 18:09:51 / 6:09 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000erm8. Unique identifier: us1000erm8. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 59.33 km (37 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -94.9612 West, latitude 16.1314 North, depth = 59.33 km. Global time and date of event 12/06/18 / 2018-06-12 00:09:51 / June 12, 2018 @ 12:09 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Pedro Tapanatepec, Chahuite, Colonia Rincón Viejo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 four and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

Questions or comments?

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 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: 8 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.9612° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.1314° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-12 00:09:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-18 23:48:34 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 246 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 2.717 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us1000erm8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000erm8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000erm8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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