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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near San Nicolás in Mexico

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Earthquake location 16.2971S, -98.6595WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from San Nicolás in Mexico on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.6595 West, latitude 16.2971 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 00:00:56 / 12:00 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ph66. Id of event: us6000ph66. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/12/24 / 2024-12-14 00:00:56 / December 14, 2024 @ 12:00 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from San Marcos (c. 12 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Ayutla de los Libres (c. 9 900 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Cruz Grande (c. 9 900 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria (c. 9 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Marcos, Santiago Jamiltepec, Ayutla de los Libres.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 20 km SW of San Nicolás, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.6595° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.2971° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km SW of San Nicolás, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-14 00:00:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-07 00:14:12 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 312 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.52 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 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 us6000ph66 Id of event.
Event Code 6000ph66 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ph66, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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