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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 8 km S of San Miguel Tenango, Mexico


Earthquake location 16.1884S, -95.6095WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from San Miguel Tenango in Mexico. Unique identifier: us6000agwf. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000agwf. Exact location of earthquake, -95.6095° West, 16.1884° North, depth 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:17:19 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/06/20 / 2020-06-23 01:17:19 / June 23, 2020 @ 1:17 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Colonia Rincón Viejo, Matías Romero, Unión Hidalgo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 four and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 8 km S of San Miguel Tenango, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.6095° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.1884° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km S of San Miguel Tenango, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-23 01:17:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-23 01:31:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 369 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 3.337 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 us6000agwf Id of event.
Event Code 6000agwf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000agwf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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