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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Playa Vicente in Mexico

Posted by admin on December 30, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.6948S, -95.6322WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Playa Vicente in Mexico on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/12/18 / 2018-12-30 14:28:13 / December 30, 2018 @ 2:28 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 126.49 km (79 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -95.6322 West, latitude 17.6948 North, depth = 126.49 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:28:13 / 8:28 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000iz8e. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000iz8e.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Texistepec, Soconusco, Oluta (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Tuxtepec (c. 92 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Acayucan (c. 47 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cosamaloapan de Carpio (c. 28 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Carlos A. Carrillo (c. 18 000 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Juan Rodríguez Clara (c. 14 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Oluta (c. 11 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine 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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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: 24 km SE of Playa Vicente, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.6322° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.6948° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 126.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SE of Playa Vicente, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-30 14:28:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-30 15:02:22 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 2.801 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us2000iz8e Id of event.
Event Code 2000iz8e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iz8e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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