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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Puerto Madero in Mexico


Earthquake location 14.4485S, -92.8159WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 56.644 km (35 miles). Exact location, longitude -92.8159° West, latitude 14.4485° North, depth = 56.644 km. The temblor was detected at 13:56:12 / 1:56 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mz64. Unique identifier: us6000mz64. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/05/24 / 2024-05-17 13:56:12 / May 17, 2024 @ 1:56 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Malacatán, Acapeteahua, Cacahoatán. Epicenter of the event was 78 km (49 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Malacatán (c. 14 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Cacahoatán (c. 14 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ciudad Tecún Umán (c. 11 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 52 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.8159° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.4485° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.644 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52 km SW 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 2024-05-17 13:56:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-17 14:30:03 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.224 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us6000mz64 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mz64 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mz64, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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