A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Higuera de Zaragoza in Mexico on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -110.1111 West, latitude 25.6642 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us20009wv6. Ids that are associated to the event: us20009wv6. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 22:25:20 / 10:25 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/07/17 / 2017-07-17 05:25:20 / July 17, 2017 @ 5:25 am.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Higuera de Zaragoza (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Higuera de Zaragoza (c. 9 000 pop).
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 was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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