Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Arriaga in Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Arriaga in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us200030da. Ids that are associated to the event: us200030da. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 112.03 km (70 miles). Exact location, longitude -93.9458° West, latitude 16.3173° North, depth = 112.03 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 13:50:29 / July 27, 2015 @ 1:50 pm. The temblor was picked up at 08:50:29 / 8:50 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Suchiapa, Unión Hidalgo, San Pedro Buenavista. Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Cintalapa de Figueroa (c. 33 500 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Ocozocoautla de Espinosa (c. 31 600 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Berriozábal (c. 21 000 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Suchiapa (c. 13 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-93.9458° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	16.3173° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	112.03 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km NNW of Arriaga, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-27 13:50:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-27 16:23:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	312	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	1.737	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	121	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	us200030da	Id of event.
Event Code	200030da	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200030da,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-93.9458° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

16.3173° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

112.03 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

10km NNW of Arriaga, Mexico

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

Time

2015-07-27 13:50:29

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2015-07-27 16:23:02

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-300

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

312

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

1.737

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

Root Mean Square

0.92 sec

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

Azimuthal Gap

121

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

us200030da

Id of event.

Event Code

200030da

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

Event IDS

,us200030da,

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

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