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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Papanoa in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 12, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.271S, -101.1611WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Papanoa in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nyc2. Id of event: us6000nyc2. The temblor was picked up at 21:53:01 / 9:53 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/10/24 / 2024-10-12 21:53:01 / October 12, 2024 @ 9:53 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -101.1611° West, latitude 17.271° North, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Atoyac de Álvarez, San Jerónimo de Juárez, San José Ixtapa (Barrio Viejo). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo (c. 61 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Atoyac de Álvarez (c. 21 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Petatlán (c. 21 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Tecpan de Galeana (c. 14 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from San José Ixtapa (Barrio Viejo) (c. 8 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from San Jerónimo de Juárez (c. 7 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from El Súchil (c. 7 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km WSW of Papanoa, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -101.1611° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.271° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km WSW of Papanoa, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-12 21:53:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-12 22:18:59 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 369 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 138 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.364 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000nyc2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nyc2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nyc2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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