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


Earthquake location 15.2334S, -94.6453WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 110 km S of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico (68 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -94.6453 West, latitude 15.2334 North, depth = 35 km. The temblor was reported at 07:40:44 / 7:40 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000b01s. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000b01s. Global time and date of event 26/09/17 / 2017-09-26 13:40:44 / September 26, 2017 @ 1:40 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 110 km S of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.6453° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.2334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 110km S of San Francisco 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 2017-09-26 13:40:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-16 16:56:19 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 1.453 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us2000b01s Id of event.
Event Code 2000b01s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b01s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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