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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Corralero in Mexico

Posted by admin on September 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.2951S, -98.1393WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Corralero in Mexico on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/09/25 / 2025-09-08 22:33:20 / September 8, 2025 @ 10:33 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -98.1393° West, 16.2951° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000quvu. Id of event: us7000quvu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:33:20 / 10:33 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Copala, Santa Catarina Juquila, San Luis Acatlán (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 10 km (6 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Putla Villa de Guerrero (c. 9 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Cuajinicuilapa de Santa Maria (c. 9 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Luis Acatlán (c. 8 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Copala (c. 6 900 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 8 km NE of Corralero, 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 -98.1393° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.2951° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km NE of Corralero, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-08 22:33:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-08 22:56:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.325 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us7000quvu Id of event.
Event Code 7000quvu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000quvu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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