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Light earthquake 4 mag, 41 km SSW of Santiago Tepextla, Mexico


Earthquake location 16.0216S, -98.6578WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Santiago Tepextla in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -98.6578 West, latitude 16.0216 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us6000nwz7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nwz7. The temblor was detected at 03:24:22 / 3:24 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/09/24 / 2024-09-24 03:24:22 / September 24, 2024 @ 3:24 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Luis Acatlán, Pinotepa de Don Luis, Ometepec. Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (46 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria (c. 9 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from San Luis Acatlán (c. 8 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Copala (c. 6 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Marquelia (c. 6 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, 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 was reported 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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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: 41 km SSW of Santiago Tepextla, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.6578° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.0216° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41 km SSW of Santiago Tepextla, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-24 03:24:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-18 04:16:50 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 246 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.629 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 220 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 us6000nwz7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nwz7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nwz7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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