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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near San Mateo del Mar in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 4, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.0961S, -95.0181WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -95.0181 West, latitude 16.0961 North, depth = 38.88 km. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:39:58 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000ay9h. Unique identifier: us2000ay9h. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/09/17 / 2017-09-09 03:39:58 / September 9, 2017 @ 3:39 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38.88 km (24 miles).

Event epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santo Domingo Zanatepec, Jalapa, San Francisco Ixhuatan.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifty-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 11 km S of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.0181° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.0961° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km S of San Mateo 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 2017-09-09 03:39:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-04 05:20:11 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 222 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 1.098 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us2000ay9h Id of event.
Event Code 2000ay9h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ay9h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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