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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 77 km SW of Paredon, Mexico

Posted by admin on February 25, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.5253S, -94.3615WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Paredon in Mexico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 53.62 km (33 miles). The temblor was picked up at 06:51:39 / 6:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -94.3615 West, latitude 15.5253 North, depth = 53.62 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/02/18 / 2018-02-25 12:51:39 / February 25, 2018 @ 12:51 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000d7nh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d7nh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Espinal, Las Amilpas, San Pedro Tapanatepec. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from El Espinal (c. 7 600 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from San Pedro Tapanatepec (c. 7 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Paredón (c. 6 100 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 five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 77 km SW of Paredon, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.3615° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.5253° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km SW of Paredon, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-25 12:51:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-25 13:13:02 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 2.268 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us2000d7nh Id of event.
Event Code 2000d7nh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d7nh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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