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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 39 km SW of Mapastepec, Mexico

Posted by admin on July 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.1774S, -93.1594WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Mapastepec in Mexico on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000g032. Id of event: us2000g032. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/07/18 / 2018-07-09 04:15:20 / July 9, 2018 @ 4:15 am. Exact location of event, longitude -93.1594 West, latitude 15.1774 North, depth = 78.07 km. The temblor was reported at 22:15:20 / 10:15 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 78.07 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vida Mejor I, Puerto Madero, Angel Albino Corzo. Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mapastepec (c. 16 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Pijijiapan (c. 15 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Escuintla (c. 9 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Angel Albino Corzo (c. 8 900 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Nueva Palestina (c. 8 100 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 one hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 39 km SW of Mapastepec, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.1594° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.1774° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km SW of Mapastepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-09 04:15:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-09 04:41:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 1.475 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 us2000g032 Id of event.
Event Code 2000g032 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g032, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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