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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 123 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico


Earthquake location 14.2833S, -93.4764WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 123 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico (76 miles) on Sunday. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:42:01 / 1:42 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/05/20 / 2020-05-24 13:42:01 / May 24, 2020 @ 1:42 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -93.4764 West, latitude 14.2833 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000a3l7. Id of event: us6000a3l7.

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

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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: 123 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.4764° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.2833° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 123 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 2020-05-24 13:42:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-01 13:35:50 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.742 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 242 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 us6000a3l7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000a3l7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a3l7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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