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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 84 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico

Posted by admin on October 6, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.4661S, -94.7738WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 84 kilometers (52 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38.21 km (24 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -94.7738 West, latitude 15.4661 North, depth = 38.21 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:46:17 / 1:46 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 07:46:17 / September 8, 2017 @ 7:46 am. Unique identifier: us2000ay0x. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ay0x.

Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from San Mateo del Mar (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Mateo del Mar (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and eighty-one, in the last 10 days two hundred and eighty-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 84 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.7738° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.4661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km SSE 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 2017-09-08 07:46:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-06 06:55:00 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 259 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 1.32 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us2000ay0x Id of event.
Event Code 2000ay0x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ay0x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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