Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near El Naranjo in Mexico


Earthquake location 18.8153S, -104.5068WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from El Naranjo in Mexico. Exact location of event, longitude -104.5068 West, latitude 18.8153 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 31/10/24 / 2024-10-31 00:23:07 / October 31, 2024 @ 12:23 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nq4r. Unique identifier: us7000nq4r. The temblor was picked up at 00:23:07 / 12:23 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 130 000 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 110 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Tecoman (c. 79 600 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Armeria (c. 17 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Cihuatlán (c. 16 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Coquimatlán (c. 13 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coahuayana Viejo, Casimiro Castillo, La Resolana (min 5000 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 one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

Did you feel the quake?

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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 36 km SSW of El Naranjo, Mexico.

Copyright © 2024 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.5068° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8153° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 km SSW of El Naranjo, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-31 00:23:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-26 03:00:29 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.496 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223 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 us7000nq4r Id of event.
Event Code 7000nq4r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nq4r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply