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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near San Francisco del Mar in Mexico

Posted by admin on September 9, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.6764S, -94.5336WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 62 kilometers (39 miles) from San Francisco del Mar in Mexico on Friday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/09/17 / 2017-09-09 00:47:58 / September 9, 2017 @ 12:47 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000aiht. Id of event: us2000aiht. The temblor was detected at 18:47:58 / 6:47 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.05 km (16 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -94.5336 West, latitude 15.6764 North, depth = 25.05 km.

Close 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 Tonalá, Unión Hidalgo, Arriaga. Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-seven, in the last 10 days fifty-nine, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 62 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.5336° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.6764° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km SSE 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 2017-09-09 00:47:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-09 01:07:58 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 298 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 2.943 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 200 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 us2000aiht Id of event.
Event Code 2000aiht An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000aiht, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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