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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near San Francisco del Mar in Mexico

Posted by admin on September 24, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.7276S, -94.6261WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 56 kilometers (35 miles) from San Francisco del Mar in Mexico on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.07 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:19:34 / 1:19 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000akm6. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000akm6. Exact location of event, longitude -94.6261 West, latitude 15.7276 North, depth = 39.07 km. Global time and date of event 12/09/17 / 2017-09-12 07:19:34 / September 12, 2017 @ 7:19 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Pedro Tapanatepec (c. 7 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Juchitán de Zaragoza, Santo Domingo Zanatepec, Paredón.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 56 km S of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.6261° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.7276° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km S of San Francisco 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 2017-09-12 07:19:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-24 13:25:02 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 246 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 3.038 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 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 us2000akm6 Id of event.
Event Code 2000akm6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000akm6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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