A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Hidalgotitlan in Mexico. Unique identifier: us200080pg. Ids that are associated to the event: us200080pg. Exact location, longitude -94.7963° West, latitude 17.5799° North, depth = 132.21 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/12/16 / 2016-12-14 09:20:39 / December 14, 2016 @ 9:20 am. The temblor was picked up at 03:20:39 / 3:20 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 132.21 km (82 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Agua Dulce, Las Choapas, Matías Romero (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Coatzacoalcos (c. 230 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Minatitlan (c. 150 900 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Acayucan (c. 47 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Las Choapas (c. 40 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Agua Dulce (c. 36 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Villa Nanchital (c. 26 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).
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 has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 28 km SW of Hidalgotitlan, Mexico.
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