A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Santa Isabel in Mexico. Unique identifier: us70007p8d. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007p8d. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -113.1723° West, latitude 29.0092° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 00:16:46 / 12:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/02/20 / 2020-02-13 08:16:46 / February 13, 2020 @ 8:16 am.
Nearby 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 San Luis. Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from San Luis (c. 7 900 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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: 71 km NNE of Santa Isabel, Mexico.
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