A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from San Nicolás in Mexico. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/04/25 / 2025-04-18 19:18:23 / April 18, 2025 @ 7:18 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:18:23 / 7:18 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.6529 West, latitude 16.3504 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us6000q72t. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000q72t.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Marcos, Santiago Jamiltepec, Ayutla de los Libres. Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Marcos (c. 12 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Ayutla de los Libres (c. 9 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Cruz Grande (c. 9 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria (c. 9 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km WSW of San Nicolás, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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