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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Salina Cruz in Mexico

Posted by admin on November 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.1386S, -95.1961WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Salina Cruz in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 19.05 km (12 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:16:09 / 12:16 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000hs23. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hs23. Global time and date of event 15/11/18 / 2018-11-15 06:16:09 / November 15, 2018 @ 6:16 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 19.05 km, -95.1961° West, 16.1386° North.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Colonia Rincón Viejo, Matías Romero, San Francisco Ixhuatan (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 5 km (3 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 five and in the last 365 days seventy-one 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km S of Salina Cruz, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.1961° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.1386° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km S of Salina Cruz, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-15 06:16:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-15 07:41:53 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 246 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 2.942 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 us1000hs23 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hs23 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hs23, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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