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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Paredon in Mexico

Posted by admin on September 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.5765S, -94.2794WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Paredon in Mexico. Exact location, longitude -94.2794° West, latitude 15.5765° North, depth = 57.44 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.44 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 13:27:07 / September 8, 2017 @ 1:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:27:07 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000ai2h. Unique identifier: us2000ai2h.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Espinal, San Francisco Ixhuatan, San Pedro Tapanatepec (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from El Espinal (c. 7 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from San Pedro Tapanatepec (c. 7 200 pop), 69 km (43 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 eighty-eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety and in the last 365 days two hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 67 km SW of Paredon, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.2794° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.5765° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km SW 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 13:27:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-22 07:55:43 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 2.69 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 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 us2000ai2h Id of event.
Event Code 2000ai2h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ai2h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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