Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near San Jeronimo Ixtepec in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.6593S, -94.9873WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from San Jeronimo Ixtepec in Mexico on Saturday. 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: us2000atqq. Unique identifier: us2000atqq. Exact location, longitude -94.9873° West, latitude 16.6593° North, depth = 8.9 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/09/17 / 2017-09-23 23:06:34 / September 23, 2017 @ 11:06 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.9 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 17:06:34 / 5:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 58 km (36 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chahuite, San Pedro Tapanatepec, Santo Domingo Zanatepec. 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

Did you feel it?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km NE of San Jeronimo Ixtepec, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2017 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.9873° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.6593° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NE of San Jeronimo Ixtepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-23 23:06:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-23 23:34:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 312 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 2.76 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us2000atqq Id of event.
Event Code 2000atqq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000atqq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply