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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near San Juan Mazatlán in Mexico

Posted by admin on March 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.0543S, -95.3725WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from San Juan Mazatlán in Mexico on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000pwmc. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pwmc. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/02/25 / 2025-02-22 19:13:55 / February 22, 2025 @ 7:13 pm. The temblor was reported at 19:13:55 / 7:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -95.3725 West, latitude 17.0543 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Colonia Rincón Viejo (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Unión Hidalgo, Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, Juchitán de Zaragoza (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km ENE of San Juan Mazatlán, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.3725° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.0543° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km ENE of San Juan Mazatlán, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-22 19:13:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-17 00:21:52 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 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.918 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 176 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 us6000pwmc Id of event.
Event Code 6000pwmc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pwmc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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