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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near San Pedro Pochutla in Mexico

Posted by admin on November 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.8376S, -96.5326WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from San Pedro Pochutla in Mexico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:34:45 / 8:34 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006cca. Id of event: us70006cca. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -96.5326° West, 15.8376° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/11/19 / 2019-11-24 02:34:45 / November 24, 2019 @ 2:34 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ayoquezco de Aldama, Santa Catarina Juquila, Ejutla de Crespo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 19 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (c. 17 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from San Pedro Pochutla (c. 13 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Brisas de Zicatela (c. 9 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ejutla de Crespo (c. 8 100 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Santa María Xadani (c. 5 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km NNW of San Pedro Pochutla, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.5326° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.8376° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NNW of San Pedro Pochutla, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-24 02:34:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-24 05:53:45 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 354 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 2.596 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us70006cca Id of event.
Event Code 70006cca An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006cca, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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