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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Paredon in Mexico

Posted by admin on June 29, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.6058S, -94.3903WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Paredon in Mexico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/06/18 / 2018-06-29 09:16:43 / June 29, 2018 @ 9:16 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 03:16:43 / 3:16 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 65.34 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -94.3903° West, latitude 15.6058° North, depth = 65.34 km. Id of earthquake: us2000fr3d. Event ids that are associated: us2000fr3d.

Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from El Espinal (c. 7 600 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from San Pedro Tapanatepec (c. 7 200 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Santo Domingo Zanatepec (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santo Domingo Zanatepec, San Mateo del Mar, El Espinal. 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 three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 73 km SW of Paredon, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.3903° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.6058° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km SW of Paredon, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-29 09:16:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-29 09:56:35 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 340 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 2.269 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us2000fr3d Id of event.
Event Code 2000fr3d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fr3d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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