A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Matias Romero in Mexico on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.77 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/08/19 / 2019-08-16 21:30:18 / August 16, 2019 @ 9:30 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -95.0058 West, latitude 16.7513 North, depth = 13.77 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005b97. Unique identifier: us70005b97. The temblor was reported at 15:30:18 / 3:30 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santo Domingo Zanatepec, San Francisco Ixhuatan, Salina Cruz. Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from MatÃas Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. 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: 14 km SSE of Matias Romero, Mexico.
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