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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 90 km SW of Paredon, Mexico


Earthquake location 15.4S, -94.3969WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Paredon in Mexico. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/10/17 / 2017-10-19 06:00:22 / October 19, 2017 @ 6:00 am UTC/GMT. 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 46.71 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -94.3969° West, 15.4° North, depth 46.71 km. Unique identifier: us1000atz0. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000atz0. The temblor was picked up at 00:00:22 / 12:00 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Paredón (c. 6 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Paredón (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 90 km SW of Paredon, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.3969° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.4° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km 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 2017-10-19 06:00:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-19 06:25:04 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 298 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 2.345 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 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 us1000atz0 Id of event.
Event Code 1000atz0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000atz0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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