Earthquakes today

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

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near San Francisco Cozoaltepec in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.8699S, -96.7785WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from San Francisco Cozoaltepec in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000p9n1. Event ids that are associated: us7000p9n1. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:45:37 / 9:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/01/25 / 2025-01-18 21:45:37 / January 18, 2025 @ 9:45 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -96.7785° West, latitude 15.8699° North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 19 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (c. 17 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from San Pedro Pochutla (c. 13 100 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Brisas de Zicatela (c. 9 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Ejutla de Crespo (c. 8 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ayoquezco de Aldama, Ejutla de Crespo, San Miguel Panixtlahuaca. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

Did you feel the quake?

Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km NW of San Francisco Cozoaltepec, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2025 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.7785° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.8699° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km NW of San Francisco Cozoaltepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-18 21:45:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-09 06:08:52 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 259 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.377 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 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 us7000p9n1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000p9n1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000p9n1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply