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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Pijijiapan in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.1836S, -93.4614WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Pijijiapan in Mexico on Saturday. 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 10:12:13 / 10:12 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 16:12:13 / December 17, 2016 @ 4:12 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 85.11 km (53 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -93.4614 West, latitude 15.1836 North, depth = 85.11 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us200081yf. Unique identifier: us200081yf.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nueva Palestina, Villa Comaltitlán, Escuintla. Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Mapastepec (c. 16 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Pijijiapan (c. 15 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Escuintla (c. 9 600 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Nueva Palestina (c. 8 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Villa Comaltitlán (c. 7 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Acacoyahua (c. 6 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Acapeteahua (c. 6 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 62 km SSW of Pijijiapan, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.4614° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.1836° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km SSW of Pijijiapan, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-17 16:12:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-17 16:49:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 1.679 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us200081yf Id of event.
Event Code 200081yf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200081yf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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