A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional in Mexico on Monday. Global time and date of event 19/02/18 / 2018-02-19 13:12:25 / February 19, 2018 @ 1:12 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.9966 West, latitude 16.3112 North, depth = 13.78 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.78 km (9 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:12:25 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000dakh. Event ids that are associated: us2000dakh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Luis Acatlán, Marquelia, Putla Villa de Guerrero (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Putla Villa de Guerrero (c. 9 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria (c. 9 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from San Luis Acatlán (c. 8 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Marquelia (c. 6 900 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km ESE of Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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