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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Tres Picos in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.8638S, -93.6839WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Tres Picos in Mexico on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -93.6839 West, latitude 15.8638 North, depth = 79.73 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us100078cn. Ids that are associated to the event: us100078cn. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/11/16 / 2016-11-15 17:27:09 / November 15, 2016 @ 5:27 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.73 km (50 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:27:09 / 11:27 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mapastepec, Cintalapa de Figueroa, Jiquipilas (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Cintalapa de Figueroa (c. 33 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Mapastepec (c. 16 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Pijijiapan (c. 15 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Jiquipilas (c. 9 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

Questions or comments?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km W of Tres Picos, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.6839° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.8638° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km W of Tres Picos, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-15 17:27:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-15 18:45:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 326 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 1.544 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us100078cn Id of event.
Event Code 100078cn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100078cn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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