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Earthquake: M 4.5 quake strikes near San Vicente Coatlan in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.1698S, -96.8935WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (mg/mb) has striked on Wednesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from San Vicente Coatlan in Mexico. The temblor was reported at 23:25:02 / 11:25 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 48.41 km (30 miles). Global time of event 23/04/15 / 2015-04-23 04:25:02 / April 23, 2015 @ 4:25 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -96.8935 West, latitude 16.1698 North, depth 48.41 km, unique identifier, us200028hz.

Close countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 19 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (c. 17 600 pop), 93 km (57 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Villa de Zaachila (c. 14 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Vicente Guerrero (c. 13 800 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Crucecita, Santa María Xadani, Cuilapan de Guerrero.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.8935° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.1698° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SSW of San Vicente Coatlan, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-04-23 04:25:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-04-23 04:48:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4 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 313 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 2.117 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 us200028hz Id of event.
Event Code 200028hz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200028hz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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