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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Pablo L. Sidar in Mexico

Posted by admin on January 11, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.8211S, -92.357WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Pablo L. Sidar in Mexico. Exact location of event, longitude -92.357 West, latitude 15.8211 North, depth = 201.553 km. Unique identifier: us6000pjd4. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pjd4. The temblor was reported at 03:33:38 / 3:33 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 201.553 km (125 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/25 / 2025-01-11 03:33:38 / January 11, 2025 @ 3:33 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tapachula, Tuxtla Chico, Chanal. Event epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Las Margaritas (c. 103 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Comitán (c. 79 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Jacaltenango (c. 34 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Motozintla de Mendoza (c. 19 100 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Frontera Comalapa (c. 18 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six 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.

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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. 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: 8 km W of Pablo L. Sidar, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.357° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.8211° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 201.553 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km W of Pablo L. Sidar, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-11 03:33:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-11 03:50:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 94 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.504 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us6000pjd4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pjd4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pjd4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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