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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 42 km SE of Santa Maria Xadani, Mexico

Posted by admin on January 15, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.6803S, -95.773WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Santa Maria Xadani in Mexico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/01/19 / 2019-01-15 12:48:09 / January 15, 2019 @ 12:48 pm. The temblor was detected at 06:48:09 / 6:48 am (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, longitude -95.773 West, latitude 15.6803 North, depth = 25.05 km. Event id: us2000j434. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j434. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.05 km (16 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, Salina Cruz, San Pedro Pochutla (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from San Pedro Pochutla (c. 13 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Santa María Xadani (c. 5 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Santa María Huatulco (c. 5 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 42 km SE of Santa Maria Xadani, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.773° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.6803° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km SE of Santa Maria Xadani, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-15 12:48:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-15 22:25:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 285 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 3.267 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 226 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 us2000j434 Id of event.
Event Code 2000j434 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j434, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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