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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near San Mateo del Mar in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.4119S, -94.727WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 91 kilometers (57 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/04/18 / 2018-04-10 15:29:57 / April 10, 2018 @ 3:29 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000dwva. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dwva. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 09:29:57 / 9:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -94.727° West, 15.4119° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Mateo del Mar. Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from San Mateo del Mar (c. 5 400 pop).

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

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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. 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: 91 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.727° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.4119° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km SSE of San Mateo 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 2018-04-10 15:29:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-03 20:04:39 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 1.377 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us1000dwva Id of event.
Event Code 1000dwva An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dwva, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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