A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Ojinaga in Mexico on Sunday. Exact location, longitude -105.0031° West, latitude 29.5011° North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:24:53 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000en3f. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000en3f. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/06/18 / 2018-06-11 04:24:53 / June 11, 2018 @ 4:24 am.
Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Manuel Ojinaga (c. 22 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Ojinaga (c. 22 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manuel Ojinaga, Ojinaga (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 two 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. 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: 57 km W of Ojinaga, Mexico.
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