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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near San Lucas Quiavini in Mexico

Posted by admin on September 2, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.9221S, -96.4573WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from San Lucas Quiavini in Mexico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/09/24 / 2024-09-02 02:57:15 / September 2, 2024 @ 2:57 am. Id of earthquake: us6000np6g. Event ids that are associated: us6000np6g. Exact location of event, longitude -96.4573 West, latitude 16.9221 North, depth = 67.97 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:57:15 / 2:57 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 67.97 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, San Francisco Telixtlahuaca, Santiago Suchilquitongo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 32 km (20 miles) from Oaxaca de Juárez (c. 262 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán (c. 61 800 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from San Antonio de la Cal (c. 20 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (c. 17 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Villa de Zaachila (c. 14 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Vicente Guerrero (c. 13 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km NNE of San Lucas Quiavini, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.4573° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.9221° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km NNE of San Lucas Quiavini, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-02 02:57:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-02 03:54:20 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 77 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.114 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us6000np6g Id of event.
Event Code 6000np6g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000np6g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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