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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Puerto Madero in Mexico


Earthquake location 14.7299S, -92.5025WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qhez. Unique identifier: us6000qhez. The temblor was detected at 13:49:47 / 1:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 72.594 km, -92.5025° West, 14.7299° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/06/25 / 2025-06-02 13:49:47 / June 2, 2025 @ 1:49 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 72.594 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Comitancillo, Retalhuleu, Mapastepec. Event epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from San Pedro Sacatepéquez (c. 40 000 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Marcos (c. 25 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

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 fourty-one 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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 W of Puerto Madero, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.5025° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7299° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.594 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km W of Puerto Madero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-06-02 13:49:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-02 16:29:01 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 284 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 78 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.95 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us6000qhez Id of event.
Event Code 6000qhez An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qhez, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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