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Moderate earthquake 5.9 mag, 29 km NE of Pinotepa de Don Luis, Mexico

Posted by admin on May 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.5688S, -97.6938WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Pinotepa de Don Luis in Mexico. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/05/16 / 2016-05-08 07:34:02 / May 8, 2016 @ 7:34 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 02:34:02 / 2:34 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.43 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10005ftw. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005ftw. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -97.6938° West, 16.5688° North, depth 24.43 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz Amilpas, Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, Marquelia. Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 117 km (73 miles) from Oaxaca de Juárez (c. 262 600 pop), 114 km (71 miles) from Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán (c. 61 800 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 117 km (73 miles) from San Antonio de la Cal (c. 20 200 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 19 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 120 km (75 miles) from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (c. 17 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 17 500 pop).

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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 29 km NE of Pinotepa de Don Luis, Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6938° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.5688° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km NE of Pinotepa de Don Luis, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-08 07:34:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-08 07:59:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 28 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.61 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 547 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 1.293 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us10005ftw Id of event.
Event Code 10005ftw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005ftw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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