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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Niltepec in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.5253S, -94.5961WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Niltepec in Mexico on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 16:35:16 / 4:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/01/19 / 2019-01-14 22:35:16 / January 14, 2019 @ 10:35 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000j3xl. Unique identifier: us2000j3xl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -94.5961° West, 16.5253° North, depth 82.03 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 82.03 km (51 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jalapa, Arriaga, Salina Cruz. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 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 fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km SSE of Niltepec, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.5961° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.5253° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSE of Niltepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-14 22:35:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-15 00:53:07 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 284 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 2.372 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 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 us2000j3xl Id of event.
Event Code 2000j3xl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j3xl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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