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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near El Súchil in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 4, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.423S, -100.6877WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from El Súchil in Mexico. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -100.6877° West, 17.423° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:36:21 / 3:36 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000c5cm. Unique identifier: us6000c5cm. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/10/20 / 2020-10-04 03:36:21 / October 4, 2020 @ 3:36 am.

The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Atoyac de Álvarez (c. 21 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Petatlán (c. 21 000 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Tecpan de Galeana (c. 14 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Coyuca de Benítez (c. 12 500 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from San Jerónimo de Juárez (c. 7 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from El Súchil (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Coacoyul, Tlacotepec, Ajuchitlán del Progreso (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 one and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 22 km NNW of El Súchil, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -100.6877° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.423° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22 km NNW of El Súchil, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-04 03:36:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-04 04:14:28 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 2.029 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 247 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 us6000c5cm Id of event.
Event Code 6000c5cm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c5cm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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