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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Santiago Pinotepa Nacional in Mexico

Posted by admin on August 6, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.9709S, -98.2713WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional in Mexico. The temblor was reported at 08:45:52 / 8:45 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10002yic. Unique identifier: us10002yic. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/07/15 / 2015-07-08 15:45:52 / July 8, 2015 @ 3:45 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.2713 West, latitude 15.9709 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Marquelia, Ometepec, Pinotepa de Don Luis (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria (c. 9 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Marquelia (c. 6 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Pinotepa de Don Luis (c. 5 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 46 km SW of Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.2713° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.9709° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km SW of Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-08 15:45:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-06 00:34:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 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 1.608 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 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 us10002yic Id of event.
Event Code 10002yic An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002yic, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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