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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Pijijiapan in Mexico

Posted by admin on December 14, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.8534S, -93.8119WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 112 km SSW of Pijijiapan, Mexico (70 miles) on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000c3z4. Unique identifier: us2000c3z4. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:54:45 / 12:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -93.8119 West, latitude 14.8534 North, depth = 28.58 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 28.58 km (18 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/12/17 / 2017-12-13 18:54:45 / December 13, 2017 @ 6:54 pm.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 112 km SSW of Pijijiapan, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.8119° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.8534° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112km SSW of Pijijiapan, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-13 18:54:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-14 00:05:42 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 2.074 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us2000c3z4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000c3z4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c3z4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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