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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Hidalgotitlan in Mexico

Posted by admin on January 31, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.6161S, -94.3243WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Hidalgotitlan in Mexico on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 20:13:44 / 8:13 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007k6n. Id of event: us60007k6n. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/01/20 / 2020-01-19 02:13:44 / January 19, 2020 @ 2:13 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 173.92 km (108 miles). Exact location, longitude -94.3243° West, latitude 17.6161° North, depth = 173.92 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Coatzacoalcos (c. 230 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Minatitlan (c. 150 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Acayucan (c. 47 000 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Las Choapas (c. 40 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Agua Dulce (c. 36 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Villa Nanchital (c. 26 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Raudales Malpaso, Chontalpa, Mecayapan.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. 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: 37 km ESE of Hidalgotitlan, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.3243° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.6161° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 173.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km ESE 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 2020-01-19 02:13:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-31 00:49:10 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 246 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 0.747 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us60007k6n Id of event.
Event Code 60007k6n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007k6n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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