Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near San Dionisio del Mar in Mexico

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from San Dionisio del Mar in Mexico on Friday. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:57:23 / 12:57 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 18:57:23 / September 8, 2017 @ 6:57 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000ai8x. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ai8x. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 50.89 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 50.89 km, -94.8344° West, 16.2969° North.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paredón, Arriaga, El Espinal (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 41 km (26 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 9 km WSW of San Dionisio del Mar, Mexico.

Arriaga El Espinal Juchitán de Zaragoza Matías Romero Mexico Paredon Salina Cruz San Dionisio del Mar San Jerónimo Ixtepec Santo Domingo Tehuantepec Unión Hidalgo

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-94.8344° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	16.2969° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50.89 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km WSW of San Dionisio del Mar, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-08 18:57:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-08 19:22:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	433	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	3.351	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65	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	us2000ai8x	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ai8x	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ai8x,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.3 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-94.8344° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

16.2969° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

50.89 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

9km WSW of San Dionisio del Mar, Mexico

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2017-09-08 18:57:23

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-09-08 19:22:07

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

2.2

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

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

433

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

3.351

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.91 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us2000ai8x

Id of event.

Event Code

2000ai8x

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us2000ai8x,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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