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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Cabo San Lucas in Mexico


Earthquake location 21.3356S, -109.0278WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 194 km SSE of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (121 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.01 km (9 miles). The temblor was reported at 22:17:47 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/12/16 / 2016-12-24 05:17:47 / December 24, 2016 @ 5:17 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10007mg8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007mg8. Exact location of event, depth 15.01 km, -109.0278° West, 21.3356° North.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 194 km SSE of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -109.0278° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 21.3356° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 194km SSE of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-24 05:17:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-20 06:20:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 2.487 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us10007mg8 Id of event.
Event Code 10007mg8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007mg8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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