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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Santo Domingo Zanatepec in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.6326S, -94.3247WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Santo Domingo Zanatepec in Mexico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.06 km (49 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:24:25 / 4:24 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000kclf. Event ids that are associated: us2000kclf. Global time and date of event 08/04/19 / 2019-04-08 22:24:25 / April 8, 2019 @ 10:24 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -94.3247° West, 16.6326° North, depth 79.06 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Cintalapa de Figueroa (c. 33 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tonalá, San Mateo del Mar, San Jerónimo Ixtepec (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 16 km N of Santo Domingo Zanatepec, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.3247° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.6326° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km N of Santo Domingo Zanatepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-08 22:24:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-08 22:54:39 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 259 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 2.128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 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 us2000kclf Id of event.
Event Code 2000kclf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000kclf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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