A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Camalu in Mexico. Event id: us700039mz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38554240, us700039mz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -115.6707 West, latitude 31.3561 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/04/19 / 2019-04-20 14:41:51 / April 20, 2019 @ 2:41 pm. The temblor was picked up at 06:41:51 / 6:41 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada, San Quintín, San Felipe (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada (c. 17 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Felipe (c. 15 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vicente Guerrero (c. 12 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Camalú (c. 7 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Benito García (El Zorrillo) (c. 6 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Emiliano Zapata (c. 5 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from San Quintín (c. 5 400 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 67 km NNE of Camalu, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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