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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near San Mateo del Mar in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 5, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.668S, -94.8795WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 05:48:57 / September 8, 2017 @ 5:48 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000ay3t. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ay3t. The epicenter was at a depth of 47.2 km (29 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -94.8795° West, 15.668° North, depth 47.2 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:48:57 / 11:48 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from El Espinal (c. 7 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Asunción Ixtaltepec, El Espinal, Unión Hidalgo. 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 two hundred and fourty-three, in the last 10 days two hundred and fourty-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 60 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.8795° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.668° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km SSE 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 2017-09-08 05:48:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-05 12:02:48 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 1.187 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us2000ay3t Id of event.
Event Code 2000ay3t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ay3t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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