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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 1 km NW of Santiago Suchilquitongo, Mexico

Posted by admin on October 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.2598S, -96.8983WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Santiago Suchilquitongo in Mexico on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 08/10/17 / 2017-10-08 01:21:11 / October 8, 2017 @ 1:21 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58.89 km (37 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000b2p1. Event ids that are associated: us2000b2p1. Exact location, longitude -96.8983° West, latitude 17.2598° North, depth = 58.89 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:21:11 / 7:21 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 28 km (18 miles) from Oaxaca de Juárez (c. 262 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán (c. 61 800 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from San Antonio de la Cal (c. 20 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 17 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 14 600 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Villa de Zaachila (c. 14 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Vicente Guerrero (c. 13 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Teotitlán de Flores Magón, San Felipe Jalapa de Díaz, Huautla de Jiménez (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 1 km NW of Santiago Suchilquitongo, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.8983° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.2598° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NW of Santiago Suchilquitongo, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-08 01:21:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-08 02:01:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 342 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 1.621 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us2000b2p1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000b2p1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b2p1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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