Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Loreto in Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Loreto in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -110.5701 West, latitude 26.094 North, depth = 16.879 km. Global time and date of event 17/04/24 / 2024-04-17 05:35:34 / April 17, 2024 @ 5:35 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 05:35:34 / 5:35 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 16.879 km (10 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mcli. Id of event: us7000mcli.

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Loreto. Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Loreto (c. 11 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 78 km E of Loreto, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-110.5701° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	26.094° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.879 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	78 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 05:35:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-16 09:18:02	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	284	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	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.93	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	196	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	us7000mcli	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mcli	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mcli,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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