Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Paredon in Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Paredon in Mexico on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 55.1 km, -94.0113° West, 15.4861° North. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:14:55 / 4:14 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 55.1 km (34 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 22:14:55 / September 8, 2017 @ 10:14 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000aier. Id of event: us2000aier.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chahuite, Pijijiapan, Arriaga (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Pijijiapan (c. 15 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Paredón (c. 6 100 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 62 km SSW of Paredon, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-94.0113° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.4861° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	62km 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	2017-09-08 22:14:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-16 23:45:25	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	1.969	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	176	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	us2000aier	Id of event.
Event Code	2000aier	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000aier,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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