Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Acacoyagua in Mexico

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Acacoyagua in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 12:04:15 / 12:04 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 108.71 km (68 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/09/15 / 2015-09-01 17:04:15 / September 1, 2015 @ 5:04 pm. Unique identifier: us20003few. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003few. Exact location of event, longitude -92.6768 West, latitude 15.4194 North, depth = 108.71 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Concepción, Comitán, San Marcos (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 109 km (67 miles) from Comitán (c. 79 900 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Jacaltenango (c. 34 100 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from San Marcos (c. 25 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Motozintla de Mendoza (c. 19 100 pop), 63 km (39 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).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-92.6768° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.4194° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	108.71 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km NNW of Acacoyagua, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-01 17:04:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-01 17:30:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	433	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	1.002	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.21 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	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us20003few	Id of event.
Event Code	20003few	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003few,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.3 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-92.6768° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

15.4194° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

108.71 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

8km NNW of Acacoyagua, Mexico

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2015-09-01 17:04:15

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2015-09-01 17:30:45

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-300

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

3.8

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

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

433

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.002

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.21 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

mwr

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us20003few

Id of event.

Event Code

20003few

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us20003few,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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