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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near offshore Chiapas, Mexico


Earthquake location 13.9188S, -92.6986WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, offshore Chiapas, Mexico kilometers (0 miles) from offshore Chiapas, Mexico. The temblor was picked up at 05:55:20 / 5:55 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20009ltt. Unique identifier: us20009ltt. Exact location of earthquake, -92.6986° West, 13.9188° North, depth 35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/06/17 / 2017-06-11 05:55:20 / June 11, 2017 @ 5:55 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ocós (c. 9 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Brisas Barra de Suchiate, Ocós. Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-eight 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: offshore Chiapas, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.6986° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9188° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place offshore Chiapas, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-11 05:55:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-11 06:22:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 259 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 1.144 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 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 us20009ltt Id of event.
Event Code 20009ltt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009ltt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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