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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Loreto in Mexico


Earthquake location 26.2794S, -110.7883WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Loreto in Mexico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/04/24 / 2024-04-17 22:25:37 / April 17, 2024 @ 10:25 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -110.7883° West, latitude 26.2794° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 22:25:37 / 10:25 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000mcsc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mcsc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Loreto (c. 11 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Loreto (min 5000 pop).

Every 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 63 km ENE of Loreto, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -110.7883° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.2794° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63 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 2024-04-17 22:25:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-14 02:29:06 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.661 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 228 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 us7000mcsc Id of event.
Event Code 7000mcsc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mcsc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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