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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 4 km WNW of Los Corazones, Mexico

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Earthquake location 16.2309S, -94.109WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Los Corazones in Mexico on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/08/24 / 2024-08-29 17:43:51 / August 29, 2024 @ 5:43 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:43:51 / 5:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -94.109° West, latitude 16.2309° North, depth = 91.451 km. Id of earthquake: us6000nniq. Event ids that are associated: us6000nniq. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 91.451 km (57 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ocozocoautla de Espinosa, San Mateo del Mar, Villa Corzo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Cintalapa de Figueroa (c. 33 500 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Ocozocoautla de Espinosa (c. 31 600 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Jiquipilas (c. 9 900 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop).

Each 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km WNW of Los Corazones, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.109° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.2309° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 91.451 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km WNW of Los Corazones, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-29 17:43:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-29 18:20:14 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 326 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.895 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us6000nniq Id of event.
Event Code 6000nniq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nniq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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