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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Higuera de Zaragoza in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 13, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 25.5084S, -109.795WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Higuera de Zaragoza in Mexico on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/10/16 / 2016-10-13 03:55:13 / October 13, 2016 @ 3:55 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.16 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -109.795 West, latitude 25.5084 North, depth = 20.16 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007dr2. Unique identifier: us20007dr2. The temblor was detected at 20:55:13 / 8:55 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Los Mochis (c. 214 600 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Juan Jose Rios (c. 26 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ahome (c. 10 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Higuera de Zaragoza (c. 9 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Topolobampo (c. 7 600 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from San Miguel Zapotitlan (c. 6 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Juan Jose Rios, San Miguel Zapotitlan, Los Mochis (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every 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.

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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: 70 km SW of Higuera de Zaragoza, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -109.795° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.5084° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km SW of Higuera de Zaragoza, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-13 03:55:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-13 04:25:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 403 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 1.819 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 135 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 us20007dr2 Id of event.
Event Code 20007dr2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007dr2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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