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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 22 km NNE of Niltepec, Mexico


Earthquake location 16.7413S, -94.5177WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Niltepec in Mexico on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002m7u. Id of event: us10002m7u. The temblor was reported at 10:54:42 / 10:54 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 100.59 km (63 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -94.5177 West, latitude 16.7413 North, depth = 100.59 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/06/15 / 2015-06-28 15:54:42 / June 28, 2015 @ 3:54 pm.

Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Cintalapa de Figueroa (c. 33 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jalapa, Paredón, Salina Cruz.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km NNE of Niltepec, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.5177° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.7413° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km NNE of Niltepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-28 15:54:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-28 16:15:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 400 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.329 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002m7u Id of event.
Event Code 10002m7u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002m7u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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