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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near San Jose del Cabo in Mexico

Posted by admin on August 7, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.0094S, -108.9081WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 132 km NE of San Jose del Cabo, Mexico (82 miles). The temblor was reported at 23:52:20 / 11:52 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -108.9081 West, latitude 24.0094 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/08/15 / 2015-08-07 06:52:20 / August 7, 2015 @ 6:52 am. Event id: us1000300q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000300q. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 132 km NE of San Jose del Cabo, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -108.9081° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.0094° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 132km NE of San Jose del Cabo, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-07 06:52:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-07 07:09:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 400 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 5.314 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us1000300q Id of event.
Event Code 1000300q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000300q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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