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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Paredon in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 4, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.7086S, -93.8933WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Paredon in Mexico. Event id: us2000ay97. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ay97. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 19:40:45 / 7:40 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 79.65 km (49 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/09/17 / 2017-09-09 01:40:45 / September 9, 2017 @ 1:40 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -93.8933 West, latitude 15.7086 North, depth = 79.65 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Pedro Buenavista, Villa Corzo, San Pedro Tapanatepec. Epicenter of the earthquake was 45 km (28 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Pijijiapan (c. 15 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Villa Corzo (c. 9 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Pedro Buenavista (c. 8 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 36 km S of Paredon, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.8933° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.7086° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km S 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 2017-09-09 01:40:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-04 02:02:14 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 271 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 0.649 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us2000ay97 Id of event.
Event Code 2000ay97 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ay97, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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