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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Mapastepec in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.2051S, -93.0851WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Mapastepec in Mexico. Global time and date of event 10/10/17 / 2017-10-10 07:55:44 / October 10, 2017 @ 7:55 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 01:55:44 / 1:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -93.0851° West, latitude 15.2051° North, depth = 61.43 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61.43 km (38 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000b3f9. Id of event: us2000b3f9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Motozintla de Mendoza, Vida Mejor I, Puerto Madero (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Motozintla de Mendoza (c. 19 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Mapastepec (c. 16 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Pijijiapan (c. 15 100 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Escuintla (c. 9 600 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 32 km SW of Mapastepec, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.0851° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.2051° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km SW of Mapastepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-10 07:55:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-21 12:35:03 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 1.504 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 209 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 us2000b3f9 Id of event.
Event Code 2000b3f9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b3f9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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