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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Puerto Madero in Mexico

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Earthquake location 14.2486S, -93.1292WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico on Monday. Global time and date of event 18/11/24 / 2024-11-18 01:17:45 / November 18, 2024 @ 1:17 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 01:17:45 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000nwd4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nwd4. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -93.1292° West, 14.2486° North.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puerto Madero. Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 93 km (57 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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. 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: 92 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.1292° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.2486° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92 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 2024-11-18 01:17:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-18 00:55:32 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.223 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 206 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 us7000nwd4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nwd4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nwd4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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