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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 13 km SW of San Juan Cacahuatepec, Mexico

Posted by admin on June 5, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.5383S, -98.2432WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from San Juan Cacahuatepec in Mexico on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -98.2432° West, 16.5383° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/06/16 / 2016-06-05 01:52:45 / June 5, 2016 @ 1:52 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006246. Id of event: us20006246. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:52:45 / 8:52 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santiago Juxtlahuaca, Malinaltepec, Copala (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Malinaltepec (c. 26 600 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Putla Villa de Guerrero (c. 9 500 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria (c. 9 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 13 km SW of San Juan Cacahuatepec, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.2432° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.5383° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SW of San Juan Cacahuatepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-05 01:52:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-05 02:26:50 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.064 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us20006246 Id of event.
Event Code 20006246 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006246, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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