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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Barra de Tecoanapa in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.8941S, -98.9374WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Barra de Tecoanapa in Mexico. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pi2r. Unique identifier: us6000pi2r. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/12/24 / 2024-12-29 22:52:22 / December 29, 2024 @ 10:52 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 22:52:22 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -98.9374° West, latitude 15.8941° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria, Copala, Marquelia (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria (c. 9 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Copala (c. 6 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Marquelia (c. 6 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

Questions or comments?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 71 km SSW of Barra de Tecoanapa, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.9374° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.8941° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71 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 22:52:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-14 01:08:46 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 246 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.858 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 236 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 us6000pi2r Id of event.
Event Code 6000pi2r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pi2r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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