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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 6 km SSW of Juchitan de Zaragoza, Mexico


Earthquake location 16.3797S, -95.0317WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Juchitan de Zaragoza in Mexico on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 17:39:56 / 5:39 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000ghe0. Event ids that are associated: us1000ghe0. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -95.0317 West, latitude 16.3797 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/08/18 / 2018-08-25 23:39:56 / August 25, 2018 @ 11:39 pm UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chahuite, San Pedro Tapanatepec, Santo Domingo Zanatepec (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km SSW of Juchitan de Zaragoza, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.0317° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.3797° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSW of Juchitan de Zaragoza, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-25 23:39:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-26 00:01:51 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 2.781 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 us1000ghe0 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ghe0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ghe0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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