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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Puerto Angel in Mexico

Posted by admin on July 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.6602S, -96.5974WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Puerto Angel in Mexico. Global time and date of event 04/07/18 / 2018-07-04 23:59:17 / July 4, 2018 @ 11:59 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000fx60. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000fx60. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:59:17 / 5:59 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 26.28 km, -96.5974° West, 15.6602° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 26.28 km (16 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 19 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (c. 17 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from San Pedro Pochutla (c. 13 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Brisas de Zicatela (c. 9 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Santa María Xadani (c. 5 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, Santa María Xadani, Puerto Escondido.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 12 km W of Puerto Angel, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.5974° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.6602° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km W of Puerto Angel, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-04 23:59:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-26 00:49:34 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 259 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 2.672 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 231 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 us2000fx60 Id of event.
Event Code 2000fx60 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fx60, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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