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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Santa Gertrudis Miramar in Mexico

Posted by admin on July 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.8699S, -95.1976WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Santa Gertrudis Miramar in Mexico. The temblor was reported at 17:38:25 / 5:38 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/06/24 / 2024-06-21 17:38:25 / June 21, 2024 @ 5:38 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000n9nd. Event ids that are associated: us6000n9nd. The epicenter was at a depth of 36.372 km (23 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -95.1976° West, 15.8699° North, depth 36.372 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Francisco Ixhuatan, Las Amilpas, San Jerónimo Ixtepec. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 30 km SE of Santa Gertrudis Miramar, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.1976° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.8699° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.372 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 km SE of Santa Gertrudis Miramar, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-21 17:38:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-17 18:00:12 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.758 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us6000n9nd Id of event.
Event Code 6000n9nd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n9nd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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