Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Santa Margarita Huitepec in Mexico

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Santa Margarita Huitepec in Mexico on Friday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:35:21 / 7:35 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 02/10/20 / 2020-10-02 07:35:21 / October 2, 2020 @ 7:35 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000c4md. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c4md. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.2 km (8 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -95.684 West, latitude 16.9054 North, depth = 13.2 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Juchitán de Zaragoza, Tlacolula de Matamoros, El Espinal. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Tlacolula de Matamoros (c. 11 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Colonia Rincón Viejo (c. 8 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-three 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 3 km SSW of Santa Margarita Huitepec, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.684° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	16.9054° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km SSW of Santa Margarita Huitepec, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-02 07:35:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-02 08:47:46	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	284	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	2.831	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	156	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	us6000c4md	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c4md	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c4md,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.3 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-95.684° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

16.9054° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

13.2 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

3 km SSW of Santa Margarita Huitepec, Mexico

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2020-10-02 07:35:21

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-10-02 08:47:46

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

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

284

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

2.831

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.79 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

156

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us6000c4md

Id of event.

Event Code

6000c4md

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us6000c4md,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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