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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Santa María Chimalapa in Mexico

Posted by admin on May 14, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.0477S, -94.5187WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Santa María Chimalapa in Mexico. The epicenter was at a depth of 131.725 km (82 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:40:21 / 7:40 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -94.5187 West, latitude 17.0477 North, depth = 131.725 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/04/25 / 2025-04-18 07:40:21 / April 18, 2025 @ 7:40 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000q6zg. Unique identifier: us6000q6zg.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chahuite, El Espinal, Juchitán de Zaragoza (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seventeen 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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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 23 km NE of Santa María Chimalapa, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.5187° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.0477° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 131.725 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23 km NE of Santa María Chimalapa, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-04-18 07:40:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-14 05:55:27 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.446 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us6000q6zg Id of event.
Event Code 6000q6zg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000q6zg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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