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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 14 km SSW of San Cristobal Amatlan, Mexico


Earthquake location 16.2107S, -96.4719WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from San Cristobal Amatlan in Mexico on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005t90. Id of event: us70005t90. Global time and date of event 10/10/19 / 2019-10-10 22:11:14 / October 10, 2019 @ 10:11 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 16:11:14 / 4:11 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -96.4719 West, latitude 16.2107 North, depth = 35 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Oaxaca de Juárez, San Miguel Panixtlahuaca, Tlalixtac de Cabrera (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 99 km (61 miles) from Oaxaca de Juárez (c. 262 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán (c. 61 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from San Antonio de la Cal (c. 20 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 19 500 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (c. 17 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Villa de Zaachila (c. 14 000 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 14 km SSW of San Cristobal Amatlan, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.4719° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.2107° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SSW of San Cristobal Amatlan, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-10 22:11:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-10 22:53:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 340 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 2.414 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 94 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 us70005t90 Id of event.
Event Code 70005t90 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005t90, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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