Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Pijijiapan in Mexico

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Pijijiapan in Mexico on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000gj0x. Unique identifier: us2000gj0x. Global time and date of event 01/08/18 / 2018-08-01 16:05:56 / August 1, 2018 @ 4:05 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 70.36 km, -93.6046° West, 14.9577° North. 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 70.36 km (44 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:05:56 / 10:05 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Mapastepec (c. 16 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Pijijiapan (c. 15 100 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Acapeteahua (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acapeteahua, Mapastepec, Pijijiapan. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 91 km SSW of Pijijiapan, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-93.6046° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.9577° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	70.36 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	91km 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	2018-08-01 16:05:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-01 16:22:18	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	416	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	1.897	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 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	us2000gj0x	Id of event.
Event Code	2000gj0x	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000gj0x,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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