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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near La Gloria in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.6431S, -94.3583WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 61 kilometers (38 miles) from La Gloria in Mexico on Sunday. Event id: us7000mrd7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mrd7. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 61.802 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/06/24 / 2024-06-09 16:05:26 / June 9, 2024 @ 4:05 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 16:05:26 / 4:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -94.3583 West, latitude 15.6431 North, depth = 61.802 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Espinal, Las Amilpas, San Pedro Tapanatepec (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (51 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from El Espinal (c. 7 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from San Pedro Tapanatepec (c. 7 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Questions or comments?

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. 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: 61 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.3583° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.6431° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.802 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-09 16:05:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-09 16:53:01 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.912 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 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 us7000mrd7 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mrd7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mrd7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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