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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Santiago Juxtlahuaca in Mexico

Posted by admin on June 27, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.5702S, -97.963WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Santiago Juxtlahuaca in Mexico on Wednesday. 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 58.08 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 08:53:25 / 8:53 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000eese. Event ids that are associated: us1000eese. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/05/18 / 2018-05-30 14:53:25 / May 30, 2018 @ 2:53 pm. Exact location, longitude -97.963° West, latitude 17.5702° North, depth = 58.08 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Olinalá, Malinaltepec, Asunción Nochixtlán. Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Ciudad de Huajuapam de León (c. 47 800 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Tlapa de Comonfort (c. 36 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Malinaltepec (c. 26 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 17 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Acatlán de Osorio (c. 16 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 14 600 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 26 km NNE of Santiago Juxtlahuaca, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.963° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.5702° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km NNE of Santiago Juxtlahuaca, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-30 14:53:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-27 06:22:01 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 298 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 0.299 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us1000eese Id of event.
Event Code 1000eese An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eese, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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