Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near San Miguel Panixtlahuaca in Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from San Miguel Panixtlahuaca in Mexico. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -97.5473° West, 16.1719° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 09/03/18 / 2018-03-09 15:53:27 / March 9, 2018 @ 3:53 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:53:27 / 9:53 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000d29h. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000d29h.

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 Ayoquezco de Aldama, Brisas de Zicatela, Puerto Escondido. Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 19 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Brisas de Zicatela (c. 9 800 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from San Miguel Panixtlahuaca (c. 5 700 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Pinotepa de Don Luis (c. 5 500 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 19 km WSW of San Miguel Panixtlahuaca, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.5473° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	16.1719° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km WSW of San Miguel Panixtlahuaca, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-09 15:53:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-09 16:11:50	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	298	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	1.692	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	173	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	us1000d29h	Id of event.
Event Code	1000d29h	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000d29h,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.4 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-97.5473° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

16.1719° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

19km WSW of San Miguel Panixtlahuaca, Mexico

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2018-03-09 15:53:27

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2018-03-09 16:11:50

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

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

298

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.692

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.16 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

173

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us1000d29h

Id of event.

Event Code

1000d29h

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us1000d29h,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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