Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Palomares in Mexico

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Palomares in Mexico on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -94.9198° West, 17.2252° North, depth 151.06 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 151.06 km (94 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/08/17 / 2017-08-07 04:58:45 / August 7, 2017 @ 4:58 am. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:58:45 / 10:58 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000ae83. Event ids that are associated: us2000ae83.

The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Acayucan (c. 47 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Oluta (c. 11 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Juchitán de Zaragoza, Unión Hidalgo, Coacotla. Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 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-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 17 km ENE of Palomares, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-94.9198° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.2252° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	151.06 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km ENE of Palomares, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-08-07 04:58:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-04 02:53:44	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	246	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	0.137	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	us2000ae83	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ae83	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ae83,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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