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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Villa Comaltitlan in Mexico

Posted by admin on September 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.2436S, -92.5495WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Villa Comaltitlan in Mexico. The temblor was detected at 08:09:57 / 8:09 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000arrt. Id of event: us2000arrt. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 14:09:57 / September 8, 2017 @ 2:09 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -92.5495 West, latitude 15.2436 North, depth = 49.04 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 49.04 km (30 miles).

Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from San Pedro Sacatepéquez (c. 40 000 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Marcos (c. 25 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Comitancillo (c. 19 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Motozintla de Mendoza (c. 19 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Comitancillo, San Cristóbal Cucho, Ocós (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 4 km NE of Villa Comaltitlan, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.5495° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.2436° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NE of Villa Comaltitlan, 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 14:09:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-22 08:28:38 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 1.013 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 225 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 us2000arrt Id of event.
Event Code 2000arrt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000arrt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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