A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 80 kilometers (50 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico on Saturday. Global time and date of event 30/09/17 / 2017-09-30 18:31:37 / September 30, 2017 @ 6:31 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -94.8027 West, latitude 15.4984 North, depth = 19.41 km. The temblor was reported at 12:31:37 / 12:31 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000b0d3. Id of event: us2000b0d3. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.41 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salina Cruz, San Mateo del Mar. Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from San Mateo del Mar (c. 5 400 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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: 80 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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