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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 12 km ESE of San Lucas, Mexico

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Earthquake location 18.5597S, -100.6749WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from San Lucas in Mexico on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, -100.6749° West, 18.5597° North, depth 68.552 km. Event id: us6000mwy2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mwy2. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 68.552 km (43 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/05/24 / 2024-05-07 11:58:15 / May 7, 2024 @ 11:58 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 11:58:15 / 11:58 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Valle de Bravo (c. 28 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Tejupilco de Hidalgo (c. 25 000 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Ciudad Altamirano (c. 24 500 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Huetamo de Núñez (c. 21 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Teloloapan (c. 21 200 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Arcelia (c. 16 900 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Jesús del Monte (c. 9 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jesús del Monte, Apaxtla de Castrejón, Valle de Bravo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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: 12 km ESE of San Lucas, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -100.6749° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5597° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.552 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km ESE of San Lucas, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-07 11:58:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-07 12:31:54 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 312 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 79 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.201 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us6000mwy2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mwy2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mwy2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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