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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Loreto in Mexico

Posted by admin on May 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 26.0683S, -110.4626WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Loreto in Mexico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/04/24 / 2024-04-17 01:45:14 / April 17, 2024 @ 1:45 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -110.4626° West, latitude 26.0683° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 01:45:14 / 1:45 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000mckg. Event ids that are associated: us7000mckg.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Loreto (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from Loreto (c. 11 200 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 nineteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 88 km E of Loreto, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -110.4626° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.0683° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88 km E of Loreto, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-17 01:45:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-15 05:21:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 370 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 69 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.021 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000mckg Id of event.
Event Code 7000mckg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mckg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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