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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Cuajinicuilapa in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.1067S, -98.6185WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa in Mexico on Monday. The temblor was detected at 11:00:01 / 11:00 am (local time epicenter). 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). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/04/19 / 2019-04-22 18:00:01 / April 22, 2019 @ 6:00 pm. Id of earthquake: us70003ac4. Event ids that are associated: us70003ac4. Exact location of earthquake, -98.6185° West, 16.1067° North, depth 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santiago Jamiltepec, Cruz Grande, San Luis Acatlán. Epicenter of the event was 65 km (41 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Cruz Grande (c. 9 900 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria (c. 9 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Luis Acatlán (c. 8 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 45 km SSW of Cuajinicuilapa, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.6185° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.1067° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km SSW of Cuajinicuilapa, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-22 18:00:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-16 18:37:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 0.55 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us70003ac4 Id of event.
Event Code 70003ac4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003ac4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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