Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 127 km SW of Tres Picos, Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 127 km SW of Tres Picos, Mexico (79 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global time and date of event 04/10/17 / 2017-10-04 12:27:28 / October 4, 2017 @ 12:27 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -94.219° West, 14.9246° North. Event id: us2000b0xy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000b0xy. The temblor was detected at 06:27:28 / 6:27 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 127 km SW of Tres Picos, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-94.219° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.9246° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	127km SW of Tres Picos, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-04 12:27:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-04 13:10:13	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	2.417	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	169	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	us2000b0xy	Id of event.
Event Code	2000b0xy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000b0xy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 127 km SW of Tres Picos, Mexico

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