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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Ixhuatan in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.0902S, -94.3949WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Ixhuatan in Mexico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200065w3. Id of event: us200065w3. The epicenter was at a depth of 85.01 km (53 miles). Exact location, longitude -94.3949° West, latitude 16.0902° North, depth = 85.01 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:31:16 / 7:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/06/16 / 2016-06-22 00:31:16 / June 22, 2016 @ 12:31 am.

The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Jerónimo Ixtepec, Salina Cruz, Asunción Ixtaltepec.

Every 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 30 km SSE of Ixhuatan, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.3949° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.0902° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SSE of Ixhuatan, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-22 00:31:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-22 01:38:03 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 271 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 2.177 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us200065w3 Id of event.
Event Code 200065w3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200065w3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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