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


Earthquake location 15.4281S, -94.5022WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 90 km S of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico (56 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -94.5022 West, latitude 15.4281 North, depth = 48.35 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/10/17 / 2017-10-14 10:03:37 / October 14, 2017 @ 10:03 am. Unique identifier: us1000as30. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000as30. The temblor was detected at 04:03:37 / 4:03 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48.35 km (30 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ninety-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 90 km S of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.5022° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.4281° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km S of San Francisco 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 2017-10-14 10:03:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-14 10:31:35 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 2.429 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us1000as30 Id of event.
Event Code 1000as30 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000as30, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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