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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag has occurred near Pinotepa de Don Luis in Mexico

Posted by admin on June 27, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.5097S, -97.9265WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Pinotepa de Don Luis in Mexico. The temblor was detected at 15:50:33 / 3:50 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us200067az. Ids that are associated to the event: us200067az. Global time and date of event 27/06/16 / 2016-06-27 20:50:33 / June 27, 2016 @ 8:50 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -97.9265 West, latitude 16.5097 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puerto Escondido, Malinaltepec, Copala (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 114 km (71 miles) from Malinaltepec (c. 26 600 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 115 km (72 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 19 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 17 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 14 600 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Putla Villa de Guerrero (c. 9 500 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km N of Pinotepa de Don Luis, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.9265° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.5097° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km N of Pinotepa de Don Luis, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-27 20:50:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-27 21:13:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 26 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.25 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 510 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 1.213 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us200067az Id of event.
Event Code 200067az An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200067az, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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