A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Papanoa in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 25.521 km, -101.0161° West, 17.2562° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.521 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/11/24 / 2024-11-01 01:25:08 / November 1, 2024 @ 1:25 am. Unique identifier: us7000npa7. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000npa7. The temblor was detected at 01:25:08 / 1:25 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San José Ixtapa (Barrio Viejo), Ixtapa, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo (c. 61 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Atoyac de Álvarez (c. 21 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Petatlán (c. 21 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Tecpan de Galeana (c. 14 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San José Ixtapa (Barrio Viejo) (c. 8 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from San Jerónimo de Juárez (c. 7 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from El Súchil (c. 7 000 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 8 km SSE of Papanoa, Mexico.
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