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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Matias Romero in Mexico

Posted by admin on September 23, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.7939S, -94.97WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Matias Romero in Mexico. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:27:52 / 8:27 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/09/17 / 2017-09-23 14:27:52 / September 23, 2017 @ 2:27 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000atku. Event ids that are associated: us2000atku. Exact location of event, longitude -94.97 West, latitude 16.7939 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santo Domingo Zanatepec, Salina Cruz, San Francisco Ixhuatan (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km SE of Matias Romero, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.97° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.7939° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SE of Matias Romero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-23 14:27:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-23 16:52:42 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 271 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 2.764 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us2000atku Id of event.
Event Code 2000atku An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000atku, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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