A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from French Harbor in Honduras. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/04/20 / 2020-04-24 22:01:44 / April 24, 2020 @ 10:01 pm. Unique identifier: us60009bur. Ids that are associated to the event: us60009bur. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:01:44 / 4:01 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -86.2761° West, latitude 16.7006° North, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Trujillo, Coxen Hole. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Trujillo (c. 9 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Coxen Hole (c. 7 500 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 42 km NNE of French Harbor, Honduras. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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