A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from San Patricio in Mexico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/05/18 / 2018-05-09 02:10:17 / May 9, 2018 @ 2:10 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e14n. Id of event: us1000e14n. Exact location of event, longitude -105.4702 West, latitude 18.7884 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:10:17 / 7:10 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 94 km (59 miles) from San Patricio (c. 6 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Patricio (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 93 km WSW of San Patricio, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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