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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Tres Picos in Mexico

Posted by admin on March 5, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.4834S, -93.7167WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Tres Picos in Mexico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -93.7167 West, latitude 15.4834 North, depth = 80.21 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/03/16 / 2016-03-05 22:01:49 / March 5, 2016 @ 10:01 pm. The temblor was detected at 16:01:49 / 4:01 pm (local time epicenter). 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 80.21 km (50 miles). Event id: us10004vk5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004vk5.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chahuite, San Pedro Buenavista, Villa Corzo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Mapastepec (c. 16 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Pijijiapan (c. 15 100 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Villa Corzo (c. 9 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Pedro Buenavista (c. 8 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 46 km SSW of Tres Picos, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.7167° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.4834° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km SSW of Tres Picos, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-05 22:01:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-05 22:21:29 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 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 1.715 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us10004vk5 Id of event.
Event Code 10004vk5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004vk5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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