Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas in Mexico

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas in Mexico on Sunday. Event id: us6000n8eg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n8eg. The temblor was reported at 18:51:45 / 6:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -102.1846° West, latitude 17.643° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 16/06/24 / 2024-06-16 18:51:45 / June 16, 2024 @ 6:51 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas (c. 84 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo (c. 61 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Guacamayas (c. 39 400 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from La Orilla (c. 20 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Buenos Aires (c. 9 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Arteaga (c. 9 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Jeronimito, Arteaga, El Coacoyul (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 36 km S of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-102.1846° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.643° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36 km S of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-06-16 18:51:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-30 14:10:27	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	284	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.19	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	239	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	us6000n8eg	Id of event.
Event Code	6000n8eg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000n8eg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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