Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near San Mateo del Mar in Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico. The temblor was detected at 01:07:05 / 1:07 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -94.8267 West, latitude 15.734 North, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/01/20 / 2020-01-13 07:07:05 / January 13, 2020 @ 7:07 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006z2b. Id of event: us70006z2b. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chahuite, Asunción Ixtaltepec, El Espinal (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 54 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-94.8267° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.734° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54km SSE 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	2020-01-13 07:07:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-17 08:47:22	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	2.643	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	133	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	us70006z2b	Id of event.
Event Code	70006z2b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006z2b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.2 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-94.8267° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

15.734° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

35 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

54km SSE 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

2020-01-13 07:07:05

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-01-17 08:47:22

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

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

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

2.643

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.73 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

133

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us70006z2b

Id of event.

Event Code

70006z2b

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us70006z2b,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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