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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 61 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico

Posted by admin on February 22, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.6422S, -94.3535WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 61 kilometers (38 miles) from La Gloria in Mexico on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -94.3535° West, 15.6422° North, depth 73.816 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pfcg. Id of event: us7000pfcg. Global time and date of event 21/02/25 / 2025-02-21 23:32:20 / February 21, 2025 @ 11:32 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 23:32:20 / 11:32 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 73.816 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santo Domingo Zanatepec, San Mateo del Mar, Las Amilpas. Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from El Espinal (c. 7 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from San Pedro Tapanatepec (c. 7 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Santo Domingo Zanatepec (c. 7 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-eight 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 61 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.3535° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.6422° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73.816 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61 km SSW of La Gloria, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-21 23:32:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-22 00:01:47 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 326 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 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.225 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 161 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 us7000pfcg Id of event.
Event Code 7000pfcg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pfcg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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