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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Salina Cruz in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.3532S, -95.3993WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 92 km SSW of Salina Cruz, Mexico (57 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004x8j. Id of event: us20004x8j. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.26 km (13 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 20.26 km, -95.3993° West, 15.3532° North. The temblor was picked up at 07:32:34 / 7:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/01/16 / 2016-01-06 13:32:34 / January 6, 2016 @ 1:32 pm UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 92 km SSW of Salina Cruz, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.3993° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.3532° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km SSW of Salina Cruz, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-06 13:32:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-05 09:07:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 246 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 0.798 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 197 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 us20004x8j Id of event.
Event Code 20004x8j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004x8j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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