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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Palomares in Mexico


Earthquake location 17.108S, -95.1938WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Palomares in Mexico. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/10/18 / 2018-10-30 18:39:40 / October 30, 2018 @ 6:39 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 115.74 km (72 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -95.1938 West, latitude 17.108 North, depth = 115.74 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:39:40 / 12:39 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000hj8k. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hj8k.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sayula de Alemán, Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, Unión Hidalgo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Sayula de Alemán (c. 11 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km WSW of Palomares, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.1938° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.108° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km WSW of Palomares, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-30 18:39:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-30 20:08:58 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 3.252 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us1000hj8k Id of event.
Event Code 1000hj8k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hj8k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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