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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 142 km SW of Mapastepec, Mexico

Posted by admin on September 11, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.5192S, -93.8274WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 142 km SW of Mapastepec, Mexico (88 miles) on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/09/15 / 2015-09-11 21:16:12 / September 11, 2015 @ 9:16 pm. 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 25.74 km (16 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20003iv2. Unique identifier: us20003iv2. The temblor was picked up at 15:16:12 / 3:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -93.8274 West, latitude 14.5192 North, depth = 25.74 km.

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 six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 142 km SW of Mapastepec, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.8274° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.5192° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 142km SW of Mapastepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-11 21:16:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-11 21:40:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 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 2.065 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us20003iv2 Id of event.
Event Code 20003iv2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003iv2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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