A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Paredon 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: us2000aivg. Unique identifier: us2000aivg. Exact location of event, longitude -94.118 West, latitude 15.2555 North, depth = 36.22 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:21:59 / 7:21 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.22 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/09/17 / 2017-09-09 13:21:59 / September 9, 2017 @ 1:21 pm UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tonalá, Paredón. Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Paredón (c. 6 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and five, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.
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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: 90 km SSW of Paredon, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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