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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Coyuquilla Norte in Mexico


Earthquake location 17.4564S, -100.9598WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Coyuquilla Norte in Mexico. Exact location of earthquake, -100.9598° West, 17.4564° North, depth 63.044 km. Id of earthquake: us7000pn6k. Event ids that are associated: us7000pn6k. The temblor was picked up at 22:42:43 / 10:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/03/25 / 2025-03-27 22:42:43 / March 27, 2025 @ 10:42 pm. 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 63.044 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo (c. 61 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Atoyac de Álvarez (c. 21 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Petatlán (c. 21 000 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Tecpan de Galeana (c. 14 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from San José Ixtapa (Barrio Viejo) (c. 8 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from San Jerónimo de Juárez (c. 7 300 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from El Súchil (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ajuchitlán del Progreso, Ixtapa, San José Ixtapa (Barrio Viejo). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 13 km NE of Coyuquilla Norte, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -100.9598° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.4564° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.044 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km NE of Coyuquilla Norte, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-27 22:42:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-28 00:23:17 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 312 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 2.193 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us7000pn6k Id of event.
Event Code 7000pn6k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pn6k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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