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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Montecillos in Mexico

Posted by admin on February 14, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.1209S, -98.7884WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Montecillos in Mexico. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:26:55 / 3:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.7884 West, latitude 16.1209 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 14/02/25 / 2025-02-14 15:26:55 / February 14, 2025 @ 3:26 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pdpc. Id of event: us7000pdpc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ayutla de los Libres, San Marcos, Pinotepa de Don Luis (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from San Marcos (c. 12 300 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Ayutla de los Libres (c. 9 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Cruz Grande (c. 9 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria (c. 9 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Luis Acatlán (c. 8 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

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. 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 twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 43 km SW of Montecillos, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7884° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.1209° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43 km SW of Montecillos, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-14 15:26:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-14 15:53:24 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 354 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.449 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 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 us7000pdpc Id of event.
Event Code 7000pdpc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pdpc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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