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Light earthquake 4 mag, 126 km SSW of Paredon, Mexico

Posted by admin on October 7, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.9559S, -94.2582WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 126 km SSW of Paredon, Mexico (78 miles). Event id: us2000aywt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000aywt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/09/17 / 2017-09-14 06:14:21 / September 14, 2017 @ 6:14 am. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:14:21 / 12:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -94.2582 West, latitude 14.9559 North, depth = 25.35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.35 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-seven, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventy-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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: 126 km SSW of Paredon, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.2582° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.9559° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 126km SSW of Paredon, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-14 06:14:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-07 06:23:28 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 246 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 1.249 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us2000aywt Id of event.
Event Code 2000aywt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000aywt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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