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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Salina Cruz in Mexico

Posted by admin on February 9, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.4866S, -95.0032WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Salina Cruz in Mexico. All ids that are associated to the event: us70007jzz. Unique identifier: us70007jzz. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/01/20 / 2020-01-20 16:56:02 / January 20, 2020 @ 4:56 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:56:02 / 10:56 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 23.87 km (15 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -95.0032° West, 15.4866° North, depth 23.87 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Mateo del Mar, Salina Cruz (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Mateo del Mar (c. 5 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 78 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.0032° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.4866° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-20 16:56:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-09 21:42:16 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 1.1 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us70007jzz Id of event.
Event Code 70007jzz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007jzz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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