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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Paredon in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 14, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.5617S, -94.2784WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Paredon in Mexico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51.77 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 13/10/17 / 2017-10-13 23:40:39 / October 13, 2017 @ 11:40 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 17:40:39 / 5:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -94.2784 West, latitude 15.5617 North, depth = 51.77 km. Event id: us1000arz1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000arz1.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Amilpas, El Espinal, San Francisco Ixhuatan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from El Espinal (c. 7 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from San Pedro Tapanatepec (c. 7 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Paredón (c. 6 100 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 68 km SW of Paredon, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.2784° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.5617° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km SW 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 2017-10-13 23:40:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-14 00:05:13 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 326 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 2.181 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us1000arz1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000arz1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000arz1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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