A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Sandy Bay in Honduras. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -87.141 West, latitude 16.5768 North, depth = 25.11 km. The temblor was detected at 19:49:19 / 7:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/11/15 / 2015-11-20 01:49:19 / November 20, 2015 @ 1:49 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us100040dz. Event ids that are associated: us100040dz. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25.11 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Coxen Hole (c. 7 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coxen Hole. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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 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: 67 km WNW of Sandy Bay, Honduras.
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