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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Aquila in Mexico


Earthquake location 18.5766S, -103.3641WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Aquila in Mexico on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 48.773 km (30 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 location of earthquake, longitude -103.3641 West, latitude 18.5766 North, depth = 48.773 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:32:33 / 4:32 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000p9uv. Id of event: us7000p9uv. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/01/25 / 2025-01-19 04:32:33 / January 19, 2025 @ 4:32 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Comala, Quesería, Cuauhtémoc. Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Colima (c. 127 200 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Ciudad de Villa de Álvarez (c. 117 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Tecoman (c. 79 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Armeria (c. 17 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Tepalcatepec (c. 15 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Coquimatlán (c. 13 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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: 15 km E of Aquila, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.3641° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5766° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.773 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km E of Aquila, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-19 04:32:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-30 02:41:45 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.283 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 232 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 us7000p9uv Id of event.
Event Code 7000p9uv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000p9uv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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