Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Puerto Madero in Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/11/24 / 2024-11-25 18:21:35 / November 25, 2024 @ 6:21 pm. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -92.9558° West, 14.185° North. The temblor was detected at 18:21:35 / 6:21 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nwda. Unique identifier: us7000nwda. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ocós (c. 9 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Mazatán (c. 5 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mazatán, Ocós, Brisas Barra de Suchiate. Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 82 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-92.9558° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.185° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	82 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-25 18:21:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-13 16:36:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	284	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.16	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	188	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	us7000nwda	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nwda	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nwda,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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