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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 57 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico


Earthquake location 15.7406S, -94.4904WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from San Francisco del Mar in Mexico on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -94.4904° West, 15.7406° North, depth 54.75 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 21:13:09 / September 8, 2017 @ 9:13 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 54.75 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000aicp. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000aicp. The temblor was detected at 15:13:09 / 3:13 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salina Cruz, Unión Hidalgo, Tonalá (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

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

Questions or comments?

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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 57 km SSE of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.4904° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.7406° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km SSE of San Francisco del Mar, 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 21:13:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-08 21:33:51 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 271 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 2.91 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 us2000aicp Id of event.
Event Code 2000aicp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000aicp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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