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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Putla de Guerrero in Mexico

Posted by admin on February 14, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.9292S, -97.9625WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Putla de Guerrero in Mexico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000d1zi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d1zi. Exact location of earthquake, -97.9625° West, 16.9292° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 07:06:46 / 7:06 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/02/18 / 2018-02-14 13:06:46 / February 14, 2018 @ 1:06 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tamazulapam Villa del Progreso, San Luis Acatlán, Malinaltepec (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from Malinaltepec (c. 26 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 17 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 14 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km SSW of Putla de Guerrero, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.9625° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.9292° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSW of Putla de Guerrero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-14 13:06:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-14 13:23:35 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 284 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 0.854 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us2000d1zi Id of event.
Event Code 2000d1zi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d1zi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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