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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 6 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico

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Earthquake location 16.1245S, -95.1722WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Salina Cruz in Mexico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/05/24 / 2024-05-11 20:43:46 / May 11, 2024 @ 8:43 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 45.085 km (28 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -95.1722° West, 16.1245° North, depth 45.085 km. Id of earthquake: us6000mxz0. Event ids that are associated: us6000mxz0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 20:43:46 / 8:43 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Colonia Rincón Viejo, Matías Romero, San Francisco Ixhuatan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 7 km (5 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.1722° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.1245° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.085 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km SSE of Salina Cruz, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-11 20:43:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-11 22:19:22 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 271 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.551 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 us6000mxz0 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mxz0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mxz0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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