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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Paredon in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.2555S, -94.118WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Paredon in Mexico. 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: us2000aivg. Unique identifier: us2000aivg. Exact location of event, longitude -94.118 West, latitude 15.2555 North, depth = 36.22 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:21:59 / 7:21 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.22 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/09/17 / 2017-09-09 13:21:59 / September 9, 2017 @ 1:21 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tonalá, Paredón. Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Paredón (c. 6 100 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 90 km SSW of Paredon, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.118° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.2555° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km 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 2017-09-09 13:21:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-13 16:27:55 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 354 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 2.524 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us2000aivg Id of event.
Event Code 2000aivg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000aivg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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