Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Puerto Madero in Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/12/25 / 2025-12-22 02:23:25 / December 22, 2025 @ 2:23 am. Event id: us6000rwey. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rwey. Exact location of event, longitude -93.1747 West, latitude 14.3621 North, depth = 35 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:23:25 / 2:23 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Mazatán (c. 5 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mazatán, Puerto Madero (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 90 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-93.1747° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.3621° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	90 km WSW 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	2025-12-22 02:23:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-22 02:58:55	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.155	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	200	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	us6000rwey	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rwey	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rwey,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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