A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/03/18 / 2018-03-26 23:21:22 / March 26, 2018 @ 11:21 pm. 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: us1000d9db. Unique identifier: us1000d9db. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -93.1707 West, latitude 14.4832 North, depth = 35 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:21:22 / 5:21 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Mazatán (c. 5 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mazatán, Puerto Madero.
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 84 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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