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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Niltepec in Mexico

Posted by admin on September 23, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.8156S, -94.7171WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Niltepec in Mexico. The temblor was picked up at 10:24:53 / 10:24 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -94.7171° West, 16.8156° North, depth 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/09/17 / 2017-09-23 16:24:53 / September 23, 2017 @ 4:24 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000atma. Unique identifier: us2000atma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jalapa, Salina Cruz, El Espinal (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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 NNW of Niltepec, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.7171° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.8156° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km NNW of Niltepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-23 16:24:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-23 17:24:24 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 4.925 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 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 us2000atma Id of event.
Event Code 2000atma An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000atma, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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