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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near San Mateo del Mar in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 6, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.6769S, -94.8516WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/09/17 / 2017-09-09 05:02:31 / September 9, 2017 @ 5:02 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 64.29 km (40 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:02:31 / 11:02 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000ay9t. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ay9t. Exact location, longitude -94.8516° West, latitude 15.6769° North, depth = 64.29 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from El Espinal (c. 7 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Espinal, Unión Hidalgo, Juchitán de Zaragoza.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and sixty-two, in the last 10 days two hundred and sixty-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 60 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.8516° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.6769° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km 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 2017-09-09 05:02:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-06 12:17:27 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 284 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 1.213 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us2000ay9t Id of event.
Event Code 2000ay9t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ay9t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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