A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico. Exact location of event, longitude -94.7908 West, latitude 15.6383 North, depth = 35 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was detected at 23:59:17 / 11:59 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70009mal. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009mal. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/05/20 / 2020-05-21 05:59:17 / May 21, 2020 @ 5:59 am UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, San Francisco Ixhuatan, Las Amilpas (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from San Francisco Ixhuatan (c. 5 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from San Mateo del Mar (c. 5 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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: 66 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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