A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Topolobampo in Mexico. Exact location, longitude -109.6635° West, latitude 25.0429° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred 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). Unique identifier: us70007r0d. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007r0d. The temblor was picked up at 14:23:41 / 2:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/02/20 / 2020-02-15 21:23:41 / February 15, 2020 @ 9:23 pm UTC/GMT.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Topolobampo. Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Topolobampo (c. 7 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).
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 occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 87 km SW of Topolobampo, Mexico.
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