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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Llano de la Puerta in Mexico


Earthquake location 16.679S, -99.4652WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Llano de la Puerta in Mexico. Unique identifier: us7000mu58. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mu58. The temblor was picked up at 17:15:14 / 5:15 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/06/24 / 2024-06-23 17:15:14 / June 23, 2024 @ 5:15 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.134 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -99.4652° West, latitude 16.679° North, depth = 16.134 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petaquillas, Quechultenango, San Luis Acatlán (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Acapulco de Juárez (c. 652 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Coyuca de Benítez (c. 12 500 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from San Marcos (c. 12 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Tierra Colorada (c. 10 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ayutla de los Libres (c. 9 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Cruz Grande (c. 9 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 9 km SE of Llano de la Puerta, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.4652° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.679° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.134 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km SE of Llano de la Puerta, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-23 17:15:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-23 18:14:51 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.229 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 216 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 us7000mu58 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mu58 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mu58, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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