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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near San Francisco del Mar in Mexico

Posted by admin on December 26, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.7667S, -94.5652WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from San Francisco del Mar in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 03:13:44 / 3:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -94.5652° West, latitude 15.7667° North, depth = 51.12 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/12/17 / 2017-12-26 09:13:44 / December 26, 2017 @ 9:13 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bwac. Id of event: us1000bwac. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 51.12 km (32 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Asunción Ixtaltepec, Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, El Espinal. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 52 km S of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.5652° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.7667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km 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 2017-12-26 09:13:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-26 11:27:44 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 340 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 2.39 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 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 us1000bwac Id of event.
Event Code 1000bwac An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bwac, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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