Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 78 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000arrw. Id of event: us2000arrw. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 15:02:54 / September 8, 2017 @ 3:02 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 09:02:54 / 9:02 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.36 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, depth 35.36 km, -94.7985° West, 15.5213° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Mateo del Mar (c. 5 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salina Cruz, San Mateo del Mar (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and ninety-five, in the last 10 days two hundred and ninety-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and ninety-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 78 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-94.7985° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.5213° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.36 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	78km 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 15:02:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-07 14:03:30	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	271	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	1.285	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	138	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	us2000arrw	Id of event.
Event Code	2000arrw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000arrw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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