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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near San Pedro Sochiápam in Mexico

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from San Pedro Sochiápam in Mexico on Friday. Global time and date of event 27/09/24 / 2024-09-27 02:56:30 / September 27, 2024 @ 2:56 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 92.216 km (57 miles). The temblor was detected at 02:56:30 / 2:56 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000ngqq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ngqq. Exact location of earthquake, -96.6811° West, 17.7735° North, depth 92.216 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Altepexi, Tezonapa, Cosolapa. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Oaxaca de Juárez (c. 262 600 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Tuxtepec (c. 92 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán (c. 61 800 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Ajalpan (c. 24 200 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from San Antonio de la Cal (c. 20 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Altepexi (c. 16 600 pop).

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

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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. 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: 6 km SSW of San Pedro Sochiápam, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.6811° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.7735° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	92.216 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km SSW of San Pedro Sochiápam, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-27 02:56:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-27 03:14:22	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.81	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	142	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	us7000ngqq	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ngqq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ngqq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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