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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near San Mateo del Mar in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.2659S, -94.7509WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 106 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico (66 miles). Unique identifier: us2000aj5f. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000aj5f. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:30:46 / 9:30 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/09/17 / 2017-09-10 03:30:46 / September 10, 2017 @ 3:30 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.51 km (27 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -94.7509 West, latitude 15.2659 North, depth = 43.51 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and seventy-five, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventy-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 106 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.7509° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.2659° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106km 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 2017-09-10 03:30:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-05 23:44:16 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 1.4 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us2000aj5f Id of event.
Event Code 2000aj5f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000aj5f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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