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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Paredon in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.7813S, -94.0609WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Paredon in Mexico on Friday. The temblor was reported at 02:43:00 / 2:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 08:43:00 / September 8, 2017 @ 8:43 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -94.0609 West, latitude 15.7813 North, depth = 53.29 km. Event id: us2000arrb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000arrb. The epicenter was at a depth of 53.29 km (33 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Villa Corzo, Pijijiapan, Las Amilpas. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Pijijiapan (c. 15 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Villa Corzo (c. 9 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from El Espinal (c. 7 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and nineteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and twenty-two, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 34 km SW of Paredon, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.0609° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.7813° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km 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 08:43:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-27 13:31:09 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 326 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 2.508 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 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 us2000arrb Id of event.
Event Code 2000arrb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000arrb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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