A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Loreto in Mexico on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly 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 of event, longitude -110.672 West, latitude 26.2484 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:49:33 / 8:49 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000mdfu. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mdfu. Global time and date of event 20/04/24 / 2024-04-20 08:49:33 / April 20, 2024 @ 8:49 am UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Loreto (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Loreto (c. 11 200 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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