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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Salina Cruz in Mexico

Posted by admin on February 15, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.9644S, -95.3799WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Salina Cruz in Mexico. Exact location of event, longitude -95.3799 West, latitude 15.9644 North, depth = 27.31 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/02/19 / 2019-02-15 07:22:06 / February 15, 2019 @ 7:22 am. 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 01:22:06 / 1:22 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jibp. Unique identifier: us2000jibp. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 27.31 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 31 km (19 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Amilpas, Crucecita, Unión Hidalgo (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 29 km SW of Salina Cruz, 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 -95.3799° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.9644° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km SW 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 2019-02-15 07:22:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-15 07:41:02 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 3.133 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us2000jibp Id of event.
Event Code 2000jibp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jibp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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