Light mag. 4.5 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 113 km southwest of Pijijiapan, Chiapas, Mexico, on Saturday, 29 June 2019 at 20:05 (GMT)

Light mag. 4.5 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 113 km southwest of Pijijiapan, Chiapas, Mexico, on Saturday, 29 June 2019 at 20:05 (GMT)

Light magnitude 4.5 earthquake at 40 km depth

29 Jun 20:26 UTC: First to report: EMSC after 22 minutes.
Hypocenter depth recalculated from 16.0 to 40.0 km.
Date & time: 29 Jun 2019 20:05:12 UTC
Magnitude: 4.5
Depth: 40.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 14.83°N / 93.77°W (North Pacific Ocean, Mexico)
Nearest volcano: Tacana (227 km / 141 mi)
Nearby towns and cities:
95 km (59 mi) SW of Nuevo Tolomita (pop: 74) --> See nearby quakes!
113 km (70 mi) SSW of Pijijiapan (pop: 16,900) --> See nearby quakes!
115 km (71 mi) SW of Mapastepec (pop: 17,900) --> See nearby quakes!
131 km (82 mi) WSW of Escuintla (pop: 9,570) --> See nearby quakes!
135 km (84 mi) WSW of Villa Comaltitlan (San Juan) (pop: 7,200) --> See nearby quakes!
136 km (85 mi) S of Paredon (Paredón) (pop: 6,130) --> See nearby quakes!
140 km (87 mi) S of Tonala (Tonalá) (pop: 35,300) --> See nearby quakes!
156 km (97 mi) SSW of San Pedro Buenavista (pop: 8,390) --> See nearby quakes!
161 km (100 mi) SW of Jaltenango de la Paz (pop: 10,400) --> See nearby quakes!
765 km (476 mi) SE of Mexico City (pop: 12,294,200) --> See nearby quakes!
Primary data source: EMSC (European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre)
Estimated released energy: 3.5 x 1011 joules (98.6 megawatt hours, equivalent to 84.8 tons of TNT) More info
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Data for the same earthquake reported by different agencies

Info: The more agencies report about the same quake and post similar data, the more confidence you can have in the data. It takes normally up to a few hours until earthquake parameters are calculated with near-optimum precision.
MagnitudeDepthLocationSource
M 4.540 kmOffshore Chiapas, MexicoEMSC
M 4.540 km112km SSW of Pijijiapan, MexicoUSGS

User reports for this quake (1)

User reports estimate the perceived ground shaking intensity according to the MMI (Modified Mercalli Intensity) scale.
Dhanbad / Weak shaking (MMI III)
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