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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Hidalgotitlan in Mexico

Posted by admin on January 21, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.2094S, -94.438WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Hidalgotitlan in Mexico. All ids that are associated to the event: us60007c0a. Unique identifier: us60007c0a. The temblor was reported at 03:49:16 / 3:49 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/01/20 / 2020-01-21 09:49:16 / January 21, 2020 @ 9:49 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 125.73 km (78 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -94.438 West, latitude 17.2094 North, depth = 125.73 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Minatitlan (c. 150 900 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Acayucan (c. 47 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Las Choapas (c. 40 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Cintalapa de Figueroa (c. 33 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Villa Nanchital (c. 26 000 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Espinal, San Jerónimo Ixtepec, San Pedro Tapanatepec (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 66 km SSE of Hidalgotitlan, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.438° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.2094° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 125.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km SSE of Hidalgotitlan, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-21 09:49:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-21 10:07:34 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 2.389 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us60007c0a Id of event.
Event Code 60007c0a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007c0a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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