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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Paredon in Mexico

Posted by admin on September 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.775S, -93.8064WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Paredon in Mexico. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:42:28 / 10:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 16:42:28 / September 8, 2017 @ 4:42 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000ai6c. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ai6c. Exact location, longitude -93.8064° West, latitude 15.775° North, depth = 62.36 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 62.36 km (39 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Pijijiapan (c. 15 100 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Jiquipilas (c. 9 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Villa Corzo (c. 9 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from San Pedro Buenavista (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jiquipilas, Santo Domingo Zanatepec, San Francisco Ixhuatan (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-six, in the last 10 days thirty-eight, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days sixty-three 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 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. 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: 29 km SSE of Paredon, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.8064° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.775° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km SSE 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 16:42:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-08 17:06:51 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 354 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 2.266 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us2000ai6c Id of event.
Event Code 2000ai6c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ai6c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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