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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 13 km S of Miguel Auza, Mexico


Earthquake location 24.1684S, -103.4511WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Miguel Auza in Mexico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/09/24 / 2024-09-20 01:11:49 / September 20, 2024 @ 1:11 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -103.4511° West, 24.1684° North. The temblor was reported at 01:11:49 / 1:11 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000nt73. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nt73. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Río Grande (c. 29 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Sombrerete (c. 18 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Vicente Guerrero (c. 14 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Guadalupe Victoria (c. 14 300 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Juan Aldama (c. 14 200 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Miguel Auza (c. 12 700 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Peñón Blanco, Cuencamé, Guadalupe Victoria (min 5000 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 13 km S of Miguel Auza, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.4511° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1684° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km S of Miguel Auza, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-20 01:11:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-20 01:53:27 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 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.612 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 us6000nt73 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nt73 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nt73, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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