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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near San Francisco del Mar in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.49S, -94.4416WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from San Francisco del Mar in Mexico. Exact location of event, depth 40.53 km, -94.4416° West, 15.49° North. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:05:05 / 7:05 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000aj44. Unique identifier: us2000aj44. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/09/17 / 2017-09-10 01:05:05 / September 10, 2017 @ 1:05 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.53 km (25 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Paredón (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paredón (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days eighty-five, in the past 30 days eighty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 85 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.4416° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.49° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km 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 2017-09-10 01:05:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-10 01:32:33 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 284 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 2.822 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us2000aj44 Id of event.
Event Code 2000aj44 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000aj44, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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