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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 14 km SSE of Crucecita, Mexico

Posted by admin on June 24, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.652S, -96.0821WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Crucecita in Mexico. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:11:18 / 3:11 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ahl5. Unique identifier: us6000ahl5. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/06/20 / 2020-06-24 03:11:18 / June 24, 2020 @ 3:11 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -96.0821 West, latitude 15.652 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (c. 17 600 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from San Pedro Pochutla (c. 13 100 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Santa María Xadani (c. 5 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Santa María Huatulco (c. 5 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, San Pedro Pochutla, Santa María Xadani (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 14 km SSE of Crucecita, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.0821° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.652° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km SSE of Crucecita, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-24 03:11:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-24 03:53:09 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 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 3.046 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 us6000ahl5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000ahl5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ahl5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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