A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Llano de la Puerta in Mexico. Unique identifier: us7000mu58. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mu58. The temblor was picked up at 17:15:14 / 5:15 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/06/24 / 2024-06-23 17:15:14 / June 23, 2024 @ 5:15 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.134 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -99.4652° West, latitude 16.679° North, depth = 16.134 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petaquillas, Quechultenango, San Luis Acatlán (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Acapulco de Juárez (c. 652 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Coyuca de Benítez (c. 12 500 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from San Marcos (c. 12 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Tierra Colorada (c. 10 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ayutla de los Libres (c. 9 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Cruz Grande (c. 9 900 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 9 km SE of Llano de la Puerta, Mexico.
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