Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Tres Picos in Mexico

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Tres Picos in Mexico. Id of earthquake: us2000ajva. Event ids that are associated: us2000ajva. Exact location, longitude -93.9711° West, latitude 15.3853° North, depth = 85.78 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/09/17 / 2017-09-11 05:51:03 / September 11, 2017 @ 5:51 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 85.78 km (53 miles). The temblor was detected at 23:51:03 / 11:51 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Pijijiapan (c. 15 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Paredón (c. 6 100 pop). Close 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 Pijijiapan, Tonalá, Paredón.

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 seventeen, in the last 10 days one hundred and three, in the past 30 days one hundred and three and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 70 km SW of Tres Picos, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-93.9711° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.3853° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	85.78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70km SW of Tres Picos, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-11 05:51:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-11 13:45:12	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	2.36	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	191	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	us2000ajva	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ajva	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ajva,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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