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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Paredon in Mexico

Posted by admin on September 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.5119S, -94.3291WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Paredon in Mexico. The temblor was reported at 07:49:10 / 7:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -94.3291 West, latitude 15.5119 North, depth = 43.4 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000ai2x. Unique identifier: us2000ai2x. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 13:49:10 / September 8, 2017 @ 1:49 pm UTC/GMT. 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 43.4 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Paredón (c. 6 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Francisco Ixhuatan (c. 5 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Francisco Ixhuatan, Arriaga, Chahuite.

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 76 km SW of Paredon, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.3291° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.5119° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km SW 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 13:49:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-22 08:22:45 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 298 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 2.728 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 us2000ai2x Id of event.
Event Code 2000ai2x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ai2x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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