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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Tres Picos in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.081S, -94.0265WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 101 km SSW of Tres Picos, Mexico (63 miles) on Wednesday. The temblor was reported at 01:34:13 / 1:34 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000b0vg. Event ids that are associated: us2000b0vg. Global time and date of event 04/10/17 / 2017-10-04 07:34:13 / October 4, 2017 @ 7:34 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -94.0265 West, latitude 15.081 North, depth = 39.52 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.52 km (25 miles).

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

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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. 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: 101 km SSW of Tres Picos, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.0265° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.081° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km SSW 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 07:34:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-04 07:47:54 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 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 2.322 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us2000b0vg Id of event.
Event Code 2000b0vg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b0vg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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