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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Ometepec in Mexico

Posted by admin on November 30, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.6067S, -98.4758WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Ometepec in Mexico on Wednesday. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -98.4758° West, 16.6067° North. The temblor was picked up at 22:47:34 / 10:47 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 30/11/17 / 2017-11-30 04:47:34 / November 30, 2017 @ 4:47 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bj70. Id of event: us1000bj70. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Malinaltepec (c. 26 600 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ayutla de los Libres (c. 9 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Cruz Grande (c. 9 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santiago Jamiltepec, Ayutla de los Libres, Putla Villa de Guerrero.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km SW of Ometepec, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.4758° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.6067° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SW of Ometepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-30 04:47:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-30 05:03:01 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 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 0.954 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 us1000bj70 Id of event.
Event Code 1000bj70 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bj70, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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