A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Salina Cruz in Mexico. Exact location of earthquake, -95.2206° West, 15.5948° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/09/17 / 2017-09-16 16:00:09 / September 16, 2017 @ 4:00 pm. The temblor was detected at 10:00:09 / 10:00 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000at4q. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000at4q.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, San Mateo del Mar, Salina Cruz (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from San Mateo del Mar (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-eight, in the last 10 days two hundred and fourteen, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 63 km S of Salina Cruz, Mexico.
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