Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Pijijiapan in Mexico

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Pijijiapan in Mexico on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:12:13 / 10:12 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 16:12:13 / December 17, 2016 @ 4:12 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 85.11 km (53 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -93.4614 West, latitude 15.1836 North, depth = 85.11 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us200081yf. Unique identifier: us200081yf.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nueva Palestina, Villa Comaltitlán, Escuintla. Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Mapastepec (c. 16 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Pijijiapan (c. 15 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Escuintla (c. 9 600 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Nueva Palestina (c. 8 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Villa Comaltitlán (c. 7 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Acacoyahua (c. 6 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Acapeteahua (c. 6 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty 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. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 62 km SSW of Pijijiapan, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-93.4614° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.1836° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	85.11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	62km SSW of Pijijiapan, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-12-17 16:12:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-17 16:49:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	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	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	1.679	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	137	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	us200081yf	Id of event.
Event Code	200081yf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200081yf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-93.4614° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

15.1836° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

85.11 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

62km SSW of Pijijiapan, Mexico

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2016-12-17 16:12:13

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-12-17 16:49:42

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-360

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

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

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

1.679

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.23 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

137

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us200081yf

Id of event.

Event Code

200081yf

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us200081yf,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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