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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near San Mateo del Mar in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.1453S, -94.8406WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 55.29 km (34 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000awxt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000awxt. Exact location of event, depth 55.29 km, -94.8406° West, 16.1453° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/09/17 / 2017-09-29 21:00:02 / September 29, 2017 @ 9:00 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:00:02 / 3:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Colonia Rincón Viejo, Matías Romero, El Espinal (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 18 km ESE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.8406° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.1453° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km ESE of San Mateo 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 2017-09-29 21:00:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-01 00:42:57 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 2.601 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us2000awxt Id of event.
Event Code 2000awxt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000awxt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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