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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 7 km SW of Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, Mexico

Posted by admin on October 1, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.2697S, -98.0676WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional in Mexico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -98.0676° West, 16.2697° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/10/19 / 2019-10-01 11:26:58 / October 1, 2019 @ 11:26 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us70005paw. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005paw. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:26:58 / 5:26 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Luis Acatlán, Marquelia, Putla Villa de Guerrero. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Event epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Putla Villa de Guerrero (c. 9 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria (c. 9 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Luis Acatlán (c. 8 300 pop).

Every 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. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km SW of Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.0676° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.2697° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SW of Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-01 11:26:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-01 13:58:28 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 271 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 1.371 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 us70005paw Id of event.
Event Code 70005paw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005paw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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