A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico. The temblor was picked up at 14:24:39 / 2:24 pm (local time epicenter). 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: us2000ay7u. Unique identifier: us2000ay7u. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 20:24:39 / September 8, 2017 @ 8:24 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.33 km (28 miles). Exact location of event, depth 44.33 km, -94.7805° West, 15.528° North.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salina Cruz, San Mateo del Mar (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Mateo del Mar (c. 5 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and eighty-nine, in the last 10 days two hundred and ninety-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and ninety-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and five 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: 77 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico.
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