Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Cuyutlán in Mexico

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Cuyutlán in Mexico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 12:03:53 / 12:03 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mzuf. Unique identifier: us6000mzuf. Exact location of event, longitude -104.1156 West, latitude 18.4722 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/05/24 / 2024-05-13 12:03:53 / May 13, 2024 @ 12:03 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coquimatlán, Manzanillo, Manzanillo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 130 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 110 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Tecoman (c. 79 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Armeria (c. 17 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Coquimatlán (c. 13 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from El Colomo (c. 10 900 pop). Close 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. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 49 km S of Cuyutlán, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.1156° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.4722° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49 km S of Cuyutlán, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-13 12:03:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-23 13:33:37	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	259	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	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.971	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	154	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	us6000mzuf	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mzuf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mzuf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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