A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico. Unique identifier: us20004y5c. Ids that are associated to the event: us20004y5c. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -92.546 West, latitude 14.6493 North, depth = 40 km. The temblor was detected at 11:27:23 / 11:27 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40 km (25 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/02/16 / 2016-02-03 17:27:23 / February 3, 2016 @ 5:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nuevo San Carlos, San Pedro Sacatepéquez, San Marcos (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from San Pedro Sacatepéquez (c. 40 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from San Marcos (c. 25 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Nuevo San Carlos (c. 19 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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