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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 10 km NW of San Vicente Coatlan, Mexico

Posted by admin on July 10, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.4594S, -96.8992WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from San Vicente Coatlan in Mexico on Monday. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:52:47 / 7:52 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000g0u9. Event ids that are associated: us2000g0u9. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49.8 km (31 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/07/18 / 2018-07-10 01:52:47 / July 10, 2018 @ 1:52 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.8992 West, latitude 16.4594 North, depth = 49.8 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa María Huatulco, San Francisco Telixtlahuaca, San Pedro Pochutla. Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from Oaxaca de Juárez (c. 262 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán (c. 61 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from San Antonio de la Cal (c. 20 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 19 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (c. 17 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Villa de Zaachila (c. 14 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km NW of San Vicente Coatlan, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.8992° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.4594° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NW of San Vicente Coatlan, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-10 01:52:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-10 02:10:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 272 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 1.936 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 188 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 us2000g0u9 Id of event.
Event Code 2000g0u9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g0u9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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