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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Puerto Madero in Mexico

Posted by admin on September 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.5427S, -92.7038WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/09/18 / 2018-09-15 00:28:35 / September 15, 2018 @ 12:28 am. Exact location of earthquake, -92.7038° West, 14.5427° North, depth 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:28:35 / 6:28 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hewy. Id of event: us2000hewy. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coatepeque, Flores Costa Cuca, El Tumbador. The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Malacatán (c. 14 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Cacahoatán (c. 14 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 36 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.7038° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.5427° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-15 00:28:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-15 01:08:16 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 1.813 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us2000hewy Id of event.
Event Code 2000hewy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hewy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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