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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Copalillo in Mexico

Posted by admin on January 5, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0146S, -99.2832WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Copalillo in Mexico. Exact location of earthquake, -99.2832° West, 18.0146° North, depth 43.56 km. The temblor was detected at 08:07:14 / 8:07 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.56 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us70006u06. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006u06. Global time and date of event 16/12/19 / 2019-12-16 14:07:14 / December 16, 2019 @ 2:07 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Juan Morales, Tres de Mayo, Cuautla Morelos. Epicenter of the event was 57 km (35 miles) from Chilpancingo de los Bravos (c. 165 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Cuautla Morelos (c. 146 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Iguala de la Independencia (c. 112 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Temixco (c. 91 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Taxco de Alarcón (c. 53 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Emiliano Zapata (c. 37 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Tlapa de Comonfort (c. 36 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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: 17 km W of Copalillo, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.2832° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0146° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km W of Copalillo, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-16 14:07:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-05 19:33:54 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 312 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 0.332 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 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 us70006u06 Id of event.
Event Code 70006u06 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006u06, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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