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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Cruz Grande in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 22, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.717S, -99.1767WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Cruz Grande in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/10/24 / 2024-10-22 22:18:04 / October 22, 2024 @ 10:18 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -99.1767° West, 16.717° North, depth 56.281 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:18:04 / 10:18 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nmi9. Id of event: us7000nmi9. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 56.281 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coyuca de Benítez, Chilpancingo de los Bravos, Chilapa de Alvarez (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Acapulco de Juárez (c. 652 100 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Chilpancingo de los Bravos (c. 165 300 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Malinaltepec (c. 26 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Chilapa de Alvarez (c. 23 700 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Tixtla de Guerrero (c. 21 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Coyuca de Benítez (c. 12 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 5 km W of Cruz Grande, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.1767° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.717° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.281 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km W of Cruz Grande, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-22 22:18:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-22 22:37:26 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 103 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.024 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us7000nmi9 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nmi9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nmi9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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