A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.86 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -93.1575° West, latitude 14.4574° North, depth = 20.86 km. The temblor was reported at 02:05:43 / 2:05 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/01/17 / 2017-01-07 08:05:43 / January 7, 2017 @ 8:05 am. Unique identifier: us10007ru5. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007ru5.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mazatán, Puerto Madero. Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Mazatán (c. 5 900 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 84 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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