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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Santo Domingo Zanatepec in Mexico

Posted by admin on February 12, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.517S, -94.3099WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Santo Domingo Zanatepec in Mexico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 109.43 km (68 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000dexp. Event ids that are associated: us6000dexp. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:21:08 / 6:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -94.3099 West, latitude 16.517 North, depth = 109.43 km. Global time and date of event 21/01/21 / 2021-01-21 18:21:08 / January 21, 2021 @ 6:21 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Colonia Rincón Viejo, Matías Romero, San Jerónimo Ixtepec (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Cintalapa de Figueroa (c. 33 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 5 km NE of Santo Domingo Zanatepec, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.3099° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.517° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km NE of Santo Domingo Zanatepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-21 18:21:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-12 16:34:03 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 0.792 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us6000dexp Id of event.
Event Code 6000dexp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dexp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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