A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Tecpan de Galeana in Mexico on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/07/16 / 2016-07-22 14:36:09 / July 22, 2016 @ 2:36 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 15.85 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:36:09 / 7:36 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20006gs2. Unique identifier: us20006gs2. Exact location of event, depth 15.85 km, -100.976° West, 16.5204° North.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Jerónimo de Juárez, El Súchil, Tecpan de Galeana. Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Tecpan de Galeana (c. 14 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Jerónimo de Juárez (c. 7 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from El Súchil (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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