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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Veinte de Noviembre in Mexico

Posted by admin on February 10, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.1451S, -92.2372WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Veinte de Noviembre in Mexico. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:04:15 / 5:04 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/02/18 / 2018-02-10 11:04:15 / February 10, 2018 @ 11:04 am. Id of earthquake: us2000d07k. Event ids that are associated: us2000d07k. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -92.2372° West, latitude 15.1451° North, depth = 112.73 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 112.73 km (70 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Soloma, San Pablo Jocopilas, Samayac (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Huehuetenango (c. 79 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Totonicapán (c. 69 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Francisco El Alto (c. 54 500 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-five 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km N of Veinte de Noviembre, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.2372° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.1451° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 112.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km N of Veinte de Noviembre, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-10 11:04:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-10 11:22:43 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 2.5 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 401 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 0.729 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000d07k Id of event.
Event Code 2000d07k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d07k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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