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


Earthquake location 15.4623S, -94.8439WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 83 kilometers (52 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 51.01 km (32 miles). 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: us2000amdz. Unique identifier: us2000amdz. Exact location, longitude -94.8439° West, latitude 15.4623° North, depth = 51.01 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/09/17 / 2017-09-14 14:33:43 / September 14, 2017 @ 2:33 pm. The temblor was picked up at 08:33:43 / 8:33 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salina Cruz, San Mateo del Mar. Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Mateo del Mar (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

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 six, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 83 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.8439° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.4623° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km SSE of San Mateo 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 2017-09-14 14:33:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-14 17:17:19 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 2.729 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 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 us2000amdz Id of event.
Event Code 2000amdz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000amdz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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