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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near San Mateo del Mar in Mexico

Posted by admin on August 18, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.0523S, -94.9727WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico. The temblor was detected at 19:28:20 / 7:28 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/08/24 / 2024-08-18 19:28:20 / August 18, 2024 @ 7:28 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n7u0. Id of event: us7000n7u0. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -94.9727° West, latitude 16.0523° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 28 km (18 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Colonia Rincón Viejo, Matías Romero, San Pedro Tapanatepec.

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.9727° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.0523° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-18 19:28:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-18 20:14:16 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 298 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.735 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 us7000n7u0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000n7u0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n7u0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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