A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Santiago Tepextla in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.4356 West, latitude 16.4004 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 09:58:36 / 9:58 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000nz1h. Event ids that are associated: us7000nz1h. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/12/24 / 2024-12-15 09:58:36 / December 15, 2024 @ 9:58 am.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Malinaltepec, Ayutla de los Libres, Putla Villa de Guerrero (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Malinaltepec (c. 26 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Ayutla de los Libres (c. 9 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Cruz Grande (c. 9 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Putla Villa de Guerrero (c. 9 500 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.
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