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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Salina Cruz in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.1107S, -95.2372WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Salina Cruz in Mexico on Saturday. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:59:50 / 10:59 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 18/07/20 / 2020-07-18 10:59:50 / July 18, 2020 @ 10:59 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000aqte. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000aqte. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -95.2372° West, 16.1107° North.

Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa María Xadani, Colonia Rincón Viejo, Matías Romero (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 9 km (6 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km SSW of Salina Cruz, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.2372° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.1107° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km SSW 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 2020-07-18 10:59:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-18 11:36:05 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 271 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 3.682 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 us7000aqte Id of event.
Event Code 7000aqte An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000aqte, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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