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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 25 km S of San Juan Evangelista, Mexico

Posted by admin on December 12, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.6694S, -95.158WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from San Juan Evangelista in Mexico. Global time and date of event 12/12/17 / 2017-12-12 15:34:24 / December 12, 2017 @ 3:34 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 108.76 km, -95.158° West, 17.6694° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 108.76 km (68 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 09:34:24 / 9:34 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000c3dw. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000c3dw.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carlos A. Carrillo, Cuichapa, Allende (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Coatzacoalcos (c. 230 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Minatitlan (c. 150 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Andres Tuxtla (c. 55 700 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Acayucan (c. 47 000 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Villa Nanchital (c. 26 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Catemaco (c. 24 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Allende (c. 21 400 pop).

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 twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 25 km S of San Juan Evangelista, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.158° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.6694° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km S of San Juan Evangelista, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-12 15:34:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-12 15:50:09 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 354 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 3.203 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us2000c3dw Id of event.
Event Code 2000c3dw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c3dw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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