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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Tomatlan in Mexico


Earthquake location 18.7982S, -107.149WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 235 km WSW of Tomatlan, Mexico (146 miles). Event id: us10004cfv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004cfv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -107.149° West, 18.7982° North, depth 31.14 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.14 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/01/16 / 2016-01-08 21:54:54 / January 8, 2016 @ 9:54 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 14:54:54 / 2:54 pm (local time epicenter).

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 235 km WSW of Tomatlan, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -107.149° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7982° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 235km WSW of Tomatlan, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-08 21:54:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-08 22:16:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 432 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 5.658 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us10004cfv Id of event.
Event Code 10004cfv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004cfv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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