A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from San Patricio in Mexico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/01/20 / 2020-01-10 15:21:26 / January 10, 2020 @ 3:21 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -105.1152 West, latitude 18.5043 North, depth = 44.31 km. The temblor was reported at 08:21:26 / 8:21 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006xjw. Unique identifier: us70006xjw. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 44.31 km (28 miles).
Event epicenter was 104 km (65 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 130 000 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 110 700 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Cihuatlán (c. 16 500 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from El Colomo (c. 10 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from San Patricio (c. 6 700 pop), 112 km (69 miles) from Las Juntas (c. 6 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Las Juntas, El Colomo, Manzanillo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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