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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Puerto Madero in Mexico


Earthquake location 14.6669S, -93.1779WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:17:17 / 6:17 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10004tt2. Event ids that are associated: us10004tt2. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -93.1779° West, 14.6669° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/03/16 / 2016-03-01 12:17:17 / March 1, 2016 @ 12:17 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Brisas Barra de Suchiate, Tapachula, Vida Mejor I (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 102 km (63 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Mapastepec (c. 16 100 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Escuintla (c. 9 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Villa Comaltitlán (c. 7 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 81 km W of Puerto Madero, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.1779° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.6669° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km W of Puerto Madero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-01 12:17:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-01 12:42:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 385 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 1.442 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us10004tt2 Id of event.
Event Code 10004tt2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004tt2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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