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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 73 km SSW of La Providencia, Mexico


Earthquake location 28.1168S, -111.8881WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from La Providencia in Mexico. Event id: us6000rlvh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rlvh. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/11/25 / 2025-11-06 13:25:59 / November 6, 2025 @ 1:25 pm. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:25:59 / 1:25 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.792 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -111.8881 West, latitude 28.1168 North, depth = 35.792 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Miguel Alemán (La Doce) (c. 30 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Santa Rosalia (c. 11 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Bahía de Kino (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Rosalia, Miguel Alemán (La Doce), Bahía de Kino. Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 73 km SSW of La Providencia, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.8881° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.1168° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.792 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73 km SSW of La Providencia, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-06 13:25:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-07 13:45:18 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 326 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 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.909 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 us6000rlvh Id of event.
Event Code 6000rlvh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rlvh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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