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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near San Mateo del Mar in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.0409S, -94.9805WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/09/17 / 2017-09-17 06:07:58 / September 17, 2017 @ 6:07 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.23 km (28 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 00:07:58 / 12:07 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000apfa. Unique identifier: us2000apfa. Exact location of event, depth 45.23 km, -94.9805° West, 16.0409° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Espinal, Colonia Rincón Viejo, Matías Romero (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.9805° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.0409° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km S 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 2017-09-17 06:07:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-17 06:49:19 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 369 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 3.426 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us2000apfa Id of event.
Event Code 2000apfa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000apfa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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