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Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Tres Picos in Mexico


Earthquake location 14.855S, -94.2516WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 135 km SW of Tres Picos, Mexico (84 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/09/17 / 2017-09-13 11:27:10 / September 13, 2017 @ 11:27 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -94.2516 West, latitude 14.855 North, depth = 22.24 km. The temblor was reported at 05:27:10 / 5:27 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000alew. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000alew. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.24 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-eight, in the last 10 days two hundred and thirty-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 135 km SW of Tres Picos, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.2516° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.855° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 135km 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 2017-09-13 11:27:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-05 12:21:28 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 234 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 1.306 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 us2000alew Id of event.
Event Code 2000alew An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000alew, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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