A 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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