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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Niltepec in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 10, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.6593S, -94.4739WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Niltepec in Mexico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 102.17 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 08:43:22 / 8:43 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000b3il. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000b3il. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -94.4739 West, latitude 16.6593 North, depth = 102.17 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/10/17 / 2017-10-10 14:43:22 / October 10, 2017 @ 2:43 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, Jiquipilas, Cintalapa de Figueroa. Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Cintalapa de Figueroa (c. 33 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 18 km NE of Niltepec, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.4739° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.6593° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NE of Niltepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-10 14:43:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-10 15:56:25 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 2.7 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 272 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 5.204 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 us2000b3il Id of event.
Event Code 2000b3il An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b3il, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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