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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 113 km SSW of Paredon, Mexico


Earthquake location 15.0853S, -94.2744WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 113 km SSW of Paredon, Mexico (70 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -94.2744° West, 15.0853° North, depth 44.38 km. Global time and date of event 12/09/17 / 2017-09-12 01:00:17 / September 12, 2017 @ 1:00 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 19:00:17 / 7:00 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000akhe. Unique identifier: us2000akhe. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 44.38 km (28 miles).

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 fourteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and five, in the past 30 days one hundred and five and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 113 km SSW of Paredon, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.2744° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.0853° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 113km 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 2017-09-12 01:00:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-12 01:20:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 355 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 2.556 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 221 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 us2000akhe Id of event.
Event Code 2000akhe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000akhe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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