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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 30 km S of San Miguel Quetzaltepec, Mexico


Earthquake location 16.6926S, -95.7603WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from San Miguel Quetzaltepec in Mexico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.59 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/11/15 / 2015-11-06 20:14:04 / November 6, 2015 @ 8:14 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -95.7603° West, 16.6926° North, depth 57.59 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 14:14:04 / 2:14 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10003vcl. Event ids that are associated: us10003vcl.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (c. 17 600 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Vicente Guerrero (c. 13 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ejutla de Crespo, Vicente Guerrero, Tlalixtac de Cabrera. Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. 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: 30 km S of San Miguel Quetzaltepec, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.7603° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.6926° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km S of San Miguel Quetzaltepec, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-06 20:14:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-06 20:35:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.819 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 130 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 us10003vcl Id of event.
Event Code 10003vcl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vcl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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