A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Jiquilillo in Nicaragua on Sunday. Global time and date of event 06/07/25 / 2025-07-06 02:28:09 / July 6, 2025 @ 2:28 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -87.4284 West, latitude 12.8499 North, depth = 173.68 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000qaxr. Event ids that are associated: us7000qaxr. The temblor was picked up at 02:28:09 / 2:28 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 173.68 km (108 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Larreynaga, San Marcos de Colón, Chirilagua. Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Chichigalpa (c. 33 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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