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


Earthquake location 16.1954S, -94.7627WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from San Francisco del Mar in Mexico on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.04 km (29 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/10/18 / 2018-10-24 17:12:07 / October 24, 2018 @ 5:12 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -94.7627° West, latitude 16.1954° North, depth = 47.04 km. Unique identifier: us1000hgl1. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hgl1. The temblor was reported at 11:12:07 / 11:12 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arriaga, Colonia Rincón Viejo, Jalapa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km WSW of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.7627° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.1954° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km WSW 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 2018-10-24 17:12:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-24 17:48:13 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 2.523 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us1000hgl1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hgl1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hgl1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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