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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Santa Maria Petapa in Mexico

Posted by admin on March 20, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.8232S, -95.2252WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Santa Maria Petapa in Mexico on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.82 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008csr. Unique identifier: us70008csr. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/03/20 / 2020-03-20 09:03:33 / March 20, 2020 @ 9:03 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 03:03:33 / 3:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -95.2252° West, latitude 16.8232° North, depth = 18.82 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santo Domingo Zanatepec, San Francisco Ixhuatan, Las Amilpas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km W of Santa Maria Petapa, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.2252° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.8232° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km W of Santa Maria Petapa, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-20 09:03:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-20 09:25:18 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 3.01 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008csr Id of event.
Event Code 70008csr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008csr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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