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Moderate earthquake: M5.7 quake has struck near San Patricio in Mexico


Earthquake location 18.4051S, -105.3702WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 114 kilometers (71 miles) from San Patricio in Mexico. The 5.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:18:37 / 5:18 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005el7. Id of event: us10005el7. Exact location of event, longitude -105.3702 West, latitude 18.4051 North, depth = 13.35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/05/16 / 2016-05-07 00:18:37 / May 7, 2016 @ 12:18 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 13.35 km (8 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Patricio (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 115 km (72 miles) from San Patricio (c. 6 700 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 114 km SW of San Patricio, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -105.3702° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4051° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 114km SW of San Patricio, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-07 00:18:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-07 00:46:55 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 3.39 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 500 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 5.074 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10005el7 Id of event.
Event Code 10005el7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005el7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

1 Comment

  1. Jay Lee

    a lot of quakes on west coast thesedays..

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