Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near San Francisco del Mar in Mexico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 53 kilometers (33 miles) from San Francisco del Mar in Mexico on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -94.4686 West, latitude 15.7817 North, depth = 35.93 km. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:44:55 / 6:44 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35.93 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/09/17 / 2017-09-20 12:44:55 / September 20, 2017 @ 12:44 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000arp9. Event ids that are associated: us2000arp9.

The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from El Espinal (c. 7 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Unión Hidalgo, Tonalá, Santo Domingo Zanatepec (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-four, in the past 30 days three hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 53 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Arriaga Chahuite El Espinal Las Amilpas Mexico San Francisco del Mar Santo Domingo Zanatepec Tonalá Unión Hidalgo

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-94.4686° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.7817° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.93 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53km SSE 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	2017-09-20 12:44:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-15 08:52:37	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	1.205	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	148	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	us2000arp9	Id of event.
Event Code	2000arp9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000arp9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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