A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from San Felipe in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005cts. Unique identifier: us20005cts. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:04:43 / 5:04 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/03/16 / 2016-03-28 01:04:43 / March 28, 2016 @ 1:04 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -114.3518 West, latitude 30.5606 North, depth = 10 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from San Felipe (c. 15 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Felipe (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 69 km SE of San Felipe, Mexico.
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