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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Matias Romero in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.7308S, -94.9123WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Matias Romero in Mexico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/09/17 / 2017-09-23 13:24:12 / September 23, 2017 @ 1:24 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000atk8. Unique identifier: us2000atk8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:24:12 / 7:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -94.9123° West, latitude 16.7308° North, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Espinal, Chahuite, San Pedro Tapanatepec (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 21 km SE of Matias Romero, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.9123° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.7308° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km 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 13:24:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-23 14:01:57 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 354 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 3.567 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us2000atk8 Id of event.
Event Code 2000atk8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000atk8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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