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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Paredon in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.2776S, -94.0504WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Paredon in Mexico. Id of earthquake: us1000atjd. Event ids that are associated: us1000atjd. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.94 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/10/17 / 2017-10-17 23:23:55 / October 17, 2017 @ 11:23 pm. The temblor was detected at 17:23:55 / 5:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -94.0504 West, latitude 15.2776 North, depth = 46.94 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Paredón (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Paredón (c. 6 100 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days seventy-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 85 km SSW of Paredon, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.0504° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.2776° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km 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 2017-10-17 23:23:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-18 00:49:40 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 271 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 2.397 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 188 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 us1000atjd Id of event.
Event Code 1000atjd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000atjd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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