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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Chahuite in Mexico

Posted by admin on May 9, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.1522S, -94.3698WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Chahuite in Mexico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -94.3698 West, latitude 16.1522 North, depth = 76.45 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 76.45 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70003ip4. Event ids that are associated: us70003ip4. The temblor was reported at 20:47:04 / 8:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/05/19 / 2019-05-09 02:47:04 / May 9, 2019 @ 2:47 am.

Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Cintalapa de Figueroa (c. 33 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Jerónimo Ixtepec, Cintalapa de Figueroa, Salina Cruz (min 5000 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-four 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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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 25 km SW of Chahuite, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.3698° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.1522° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km SW of Chahuite, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-09 02:47:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-09 03:03:55 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 259 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 2.149 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us70003ip4 Id of event.
Event Code 70003ip4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003ip4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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