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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Salina Cruz in Mexico

Posted by admin on June 24, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.6535S, -95.1558WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Salina Cruz in Mexico on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:46:47 / 2:46 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43.02 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000f05i. Id of event: us1000f05i. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/06/18 / 2018-06-24 08:46:47 / June 24, 2018 @ 8:46 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -95.1558 West, latitude 15.6535 North, depth = 43.02 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Espinal, Juchitán de Zaragoza, Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from El Espinal (c. 7 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from San Mateo del Mar (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 three and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 56 km S of Salina Cruz, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.1558° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.6535° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km S of Salina Cruz, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-24 08:46:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-24 09:06:18 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 271 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 2.97 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us1000f05i Id of event.
Event Code 1000f05i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000f05i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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