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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 8 km SW of Colonia Juárez, Mexico


Earthquake location 16.1573S, -95.0829WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Colonia Juárez in Mexico. The temblor was detected at 01:32:11 / 1:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -95.0829 West, latitude 16.1573 North, depth = 52.238 km. Global time and date of event 03/12/24 / 2024-12-03 01:32:11 / December 3, 2024 @ 1:32 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000nvjj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nvjj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.238 km (32 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santo Domingo Zanatepec, Colonia Rincón Viejo, Matías Romero. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 8 km SW of Colonia Juárez, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.0829° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.1573° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.238 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km SW of Colonia Juárez, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-03 01:32:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-03 01:46:58 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 298 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.833 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us7000nvjj Id of event.
Event Code 7000nvjj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nvjj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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