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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near San Mateo del Mar in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.1414S, -94.8978WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/11/19 / 2019-11-27 01:29:51 / November 27, 2019 @ 1:29 am. Id of earthquake: us70006djm. Event ids that are associated: us70006djm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43.85 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -94.8978° West, 16.1414° North, depth 43.85 km. The temblor was detected at 19:29:51 / 7:29 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 33 km (20 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Espinal, Colonia Rincón Viejo, Matías Romero (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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: 12 km ESE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico. This data 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 -94.8978° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.1414° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km ESE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-27 01:29:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-27 01:51:01 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 2.656 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us70006djm Id of event.
Event Code 70006djm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006djm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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