Strong earthquake, 6.9 mag strikes near Tomatlan in Mexico

A earthquake magnitude 6.9 (ml/mb) strikes 239 km SW of Tomatlan, Mexico (149 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, -107.022° West, 18.579° North, depth 10 km. Unique identifier: pt16021050. Ids that are associated to the event: pt16021050. Global time and date of event 21/01/16 / 2016-01-21 18:06:56 / January 21, 2016 @ 6:06 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 6.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:06:56 / 11:06 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 239 km SW of Tomatlan, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-107.022° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.579° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	239km SW of Tomatlan, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-21 18:06:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-21 18:13:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	732	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	pt	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	226.799981856	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	pt16021050	Id of event.
Event Code	16021050	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt16021050,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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