Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Paredon in Mexico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 86 km SSW of Paredon, Mexico (53 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.66 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/09/17 / 2017-09-15 09:36:02 / September 15, 2017 @ 9:36 am. Exact location, longitude -94.103° West, latitude 15.2863° North, depth = 17.66 km. Id of earthquake: us2000an6i. Event ids that are associated: us2000an6i. The temblor was reported at 03:36:02 / 3:36 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-nine, in the last 10 days three hundred and seven, in the past 30 days three hundred and seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 86 km SSW of Paredon, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-94.103° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.2863° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	86km 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	2017-09-15 09:36:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-14 06:14:21	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	234	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	0.948	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	183	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	us2000an6i	Id of event.
Event Code	2000an6i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000an6i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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