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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near San Francisco del Mar in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.3134S, -94.6427WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 101 km S of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico (63 miles) on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/09/17 / 2017-09-18 19:51:32 / September 18, 2017 @ 7:51 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000aq7z. Unique identifier: us2000aq7z. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.07 km (19 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:51:32 / 1:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -94.6427° West, 15.3134° North, depth 31.07 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-five 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 101 km S of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.6427° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.3134° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km S 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 2017-09-18 19:51:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-18 23:06:53 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 369 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 3.03 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us2000aq7z Id of event.
Event Code 2000aq7z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000aq7z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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