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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 8 km ENE of Culiacán, Mexico

Posted by admin on August 14, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.8149S, -107.3051WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Culiacán in Mexico. Id of earthquake: us6000quje. Event ids that are associated: us6000quje. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:12:39 / 3:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/07/25 / 2025-07-24 03:12:39 / July 24, 2025 @ 3:12 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -107.3051 West, latitude 24.8149 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Reforma, Cosalá, La Constancia. Event epicenter was 9 km (5 miles) from Culiacán (c. 675 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Navolato (c. 28 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Licenciado Benito Juárez (Campo Gobierno) (c. 24 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Villa de Costa Rica (c. 21 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Villa Juárez (c. 21 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from El Rosario (c. 14 600 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 8 km ENE of Culiacán, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -107.3051° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.8149° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km ENE of Culiacán, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-24 03:12:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-14 01:23:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 272 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 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.748 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201 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 us6000quje Id of event.
Event Code 6000quje An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000quje, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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