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Light earthquake 4 mag, 45 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico


Earthquake location 15.7772S, -95.0655WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Salina Cruz in Mexico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.99 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/09/17 / 2017-09-09 21:45:47 / September 9, 2017 @ 9:45 pm. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:45:47 / 3:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -95.0655 West, latitude 15.7772 North, depth = 34.99 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000ayd8. Unique identifier: us2000ayd8.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Jerónimo Ixtepec, San Francisco Ixhuatan, Unión Hidalgo (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 45 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.0655° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.7772° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km SSE of Salina Cruz, 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 21:45:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-06 03:16:49 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 246 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 1.004 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us2000ayd8 Id of event.
Event Code 2000ayd8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ayd8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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