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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near San Francisco del Mar in Mexico

Posted by admin on September 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.7153S, -94.5625WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from San Francisco del Mar in Mexico on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000ahw5. Event ids that are associated: us2000ahw5. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 05:44:29 / September 8, 2017 @ 5:44 am. The temblor was picked up at 23:44:29 / 11:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -94.5625° West, 15.7153° North.

Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Asunción Ixtaltepec, El Espinal, Santo Domingo Tehuantepec.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days twenty-six 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. 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: 58 km S of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.5625° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.7153° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km S of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-08 05:44:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-08 06:03:54 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 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 370 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 4.664 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 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 us2000ahw5 Id of event.
Event Code 2000ahw5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ahw5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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