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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Paredon in Mexico

Posted by admin on September 13, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.4574S, -94.2242WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Paredon in Mexico. Exact location, longitude -94.2242° West, latitude 15.4574° North, depth = 74.36 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 74.36 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 13/09/17 / 2017-09-13 02:43:11 / September 13, 2017 @ 2:43 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000al8v. Unique identifier: us2000al8v. The temblor was picked up at 20:43:11 / 8:43 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Paredón (c. 6 100 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chahuite, Arriaga, Tonalá.

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 fourteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 74 km SSW of Paredon, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.2242° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.4574° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km SSW of Paredon, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-13 02:43:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-13 03:09:59 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 2.614 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 188 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 us2000al8v Id of event.
Event Code 2000al8v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000al8v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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