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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 121 km SW of Pijijiapan, Mexico


Earthquake location 14.7932S, -93.8701WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 121 km SW of Pijijiapan, Mexico (75 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:30:39 / 2:30 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003h7k. Id of event: us20003h7k. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -93.8701 West, latitude 14.7932 North, depth = 43.26 km. Global time and date of event 08/09/15 / 2015-09-08 08:30:39 / September 8, 2015 @ 8:30 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43.26 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 121 km SW of Pijijiapan, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.8701° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7932° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 121km SW 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 2015-09-08 08:30:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-08 08:50:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 326 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 2.232 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us20003h7k Id of event.
Event Code 20003h7k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003h7k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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