Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near San Francisco del Mar Viejo in Mexico

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 86 kilometers (53 miles) from San Francisco del Mar Viejo in Mexico on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us6000nyyt. Event ids that are associated: us6000nyyt. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:42:51 / 4:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -94.578° West, 15.454° North. Global time and date of event 16/10/24 / 2024-10-16 04:42:51 / October 16, 2024 @ 4:42 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Mateo del Mar. Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from San Mateo del Mar (c. 5 400 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 86 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-94.578° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.454° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	86 km S of San Francisco del Mar Viejo, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-16 04:42:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-16 04:58:07	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	312	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.489	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.03 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	204	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	us6000nyyt	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nyyt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nyyt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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