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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near San Francisco del Mar in Mexico

Posted by admin on September 25, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.6767S, -94.5793WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 62 kilometers (39 miles) from San Francisco del Mar in Mexico on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/09/17 / 2017-09-25 04:29:14 / September 25, 2017 @ 4:29 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000au3u. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000au3u. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.46 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -94.5793° West, latitude 15.6767° North, depth = 52.46 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:29:14 / 10:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from El Espinal (c. 7 600 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from San Pedro Tapanatepec (c. 7 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santo Domingo Zanatepec, Unión Hidalgo, El Espinal (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and six and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-three 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 62 km S of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.5793° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.6767° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km 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 2017-09-25 04:29:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-25 04:49:54 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 2.987 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us2000au3u Id of event.
Event Code 2000au3u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000au3u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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