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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near El Coyul in Mexico

Posted by admin on June 23, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.983S, -95.8883WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from El Coyul in Mexico. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:45:23 / 5:45 pm (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 -95.8883 West, latitude 15.983 North, depth = 35 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/06/20 / 2020-06-23 17:45:23 / June 23, 2020 @ 5:45 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000ahcl. Event ids that are associated: us6000ahcl. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, Salina Cruz. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (c. 17 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from San Pedro Pochutla (c. 13 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Jalapa (c. 8 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days thirty-six 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 11 km NW of El Coyul, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.8883° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.983° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km NW of El Coyul, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-23 17:45:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-23 22:37:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 259 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 4.573 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 us6000ahcl Id of event.
Event Code 6000ahcl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ahcl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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