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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Puerto Madero in Mexico


Earthquake location 14.2669S, -93.0654WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico. Unique identifier: us7000nq4p. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nq4p. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 36.967 km (23 miles). The temblor was detected at 21:16:06 / 9:16 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/10/24 / 2024-10-27 21:16:06 / October 27, 2024 @ 9:16 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -93.0654 West, latitude 14.2669 North, depth = 36.967 km.

Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto Madero. Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 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 five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 85 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.0654° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.2669° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.967 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-27 21:16:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-20 04:28:12 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 271 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.26 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us7000nq4p Id of event.
Event Code 7000nq4p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nq4p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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