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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Paredon in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.1149S, -94.1754WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 106 km SSW of Paredon, Mexico (66 miles) on Friday. Exact location, longitude -94.1754° West, latitude 15.1149° North, depth = 39.83 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 39.83 km (25 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 23:22:32 / September 8, 2017 @ 11:22 pm. 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: us2000aigc. Unique identifier: us2000aigc. The temblor was reported at 17:22:32 / 5:22 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-two, in the last 10 days fifty-four, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 106 km SSW of Paredon, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.1754° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.1149° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106km SSW 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 2017-09-08 23:22:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-08 23:40:47 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 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 2.469 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 206 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 us2000aigc Id of event.
Event Code 2000aigc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000aigc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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