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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Mapastepec in Mexico

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Mapastepec in Mexico. Event id: us1000ayfn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ayfn. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:34:11 / 10:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 67.93 km, -93.2774° West, 15.2209° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/10/17 / 2017-10-30 04:34:11 / October 30, 2017 @ 4:34 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 67.93 km (42 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Huixtla, Nueva Palestina, Villa Comaltitlán. Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mapastepec (c. 16 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Pijijiapan (c. 15 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Escuintla (c. 9 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Nueva Palestina (c. 8 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Villa Comaltitlán (c. 7 900 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 46 km WSW of Mapastepec, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-93.2774° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.2209° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	67.93 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46km WSW of Mapastepec, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-30 04:34:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-30 05:10:26	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	259	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	1.679	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	188	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	us1000ayfn	Id of event.
Event Code	1000ayfn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000ayfn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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