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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 14 km SSW of Santiago Tepextla, Mexico

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Earthquake location 16.2238S, -98.4996WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Santiago Tepextla in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:20:04 / 12:20 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000nuw7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nuw7. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -98.4996° West, latitude 16.2238° North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/11/24 / 2024-11-13 00:20:04 / November 13, 2024 @ 12:20 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 49 km (31 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Cruz Grande (c. 9 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria (c. 9 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from San Luis Acatlán (c. 8 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Copala (c. 6 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Grande, Santiago Jamiltepec, San Luis Acatlán (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 14 km SSW of Santiago Tepextla, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.4996° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.2238° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km SSW of Santiago Tepextla, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-13 00:20:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-06 04:51:57 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 100 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.395 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us7000nuw7 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nuw7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nuw7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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