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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Barra de Tecoanapa in Mexico

Posted by admin on December 31, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.0345S, -98.8471WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Barra de Tecoanapa in Mexico on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/12/24 / 2024-12-29 22:28:00 / December 29, 2024 @ 10:28 pm. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:28:00 / 10:28 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -98.8471° West, latitude 16.0345° North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us6000pgcu. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pgcu.

The epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from San Marcos (c. 12 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Cruz Grande (c. 9 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria (c. 9 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Luis Acatlán (c. 8 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Copala (c. 6 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Marcos, Pinotepa de Don Luis, Santiago Pinotepa Nacional. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventeen 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 53 km SSW of Barra de Tecoanapa, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.8471° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.0345° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53 km SSW of Barra de Tecoanapa, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-29 22:28:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-31 00:36:49 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 369 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.543 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us6000pgcu Id of event.
Event Code 6000pgcu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pgcu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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