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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Loreto in Mexico


Earthquake location 26.2484S, -110.672WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Loreto in Mexico on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -110.672 West, latitude 26.2484 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:49:33 / 8:49 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000mdfu. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mdfu. Global time and date of event 20/04/24 / 2024-04-20 08:49:33 / April 20, 2024 @ 8:49 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Loreto (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Loreto (c. 11 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, 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 have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 72 km ENE of Loreto, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -110.672° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.2484° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72 km ENE 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 2024-04-20 08:49:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-08 05:08:32 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 298 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.762 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 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 us7000mdfu Id of event.
Event Code 7000mdfu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mdfu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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