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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Puerto Ángel in Mexico

Posted by admin on July 7, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.4272S, -96.3629WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Puerto Ángel in Mexico. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:17:25 / 8:17 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000mxh2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mxh2. Exact location, longitude -96.3629° West, latitude 15.4272° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/24 / 2024-07-06 20:17:25 / July 6, 2024 @ 8:17 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto Escondido, Brisas de Zicatela, Santa María Xadani. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Event epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 19 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from San Pedro Pochutla (c. 13 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Brisas de Zicatela (c. 9 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santa María Xadani (c. 5 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Santa María Huatulco (c. 5 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 30 km SSE of Puerto Ángel, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.3629° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.4272° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 km SSE of Puerto Ángel, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-06 20:17:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-07 00:47:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.996 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 229 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 us7000mxh2 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mxh2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mxh2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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