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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Xochistlahuaca in Mexico

Posted by admin on January 12, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.8233S, -98.3622WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Xochistlahuaca in Mexico. Exact location of earthquake, -98.3622° West, 16.8233° North, depth 10 km. Id of earthquake: us10007suf. Event ids that are associated: us10007suf. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 04:26:58 / 4:26 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/01/17 / 2017-01-12 10:26:58 / January 12, 2017 @ 10:26 am.

Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from Tlapa de Comonfort (c. 36 900 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Malinaltepec (c. 26 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 17 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 14 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Santiago Jamiltepec (c. 9 900 pop). 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 Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco, Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco, Santiago Jamiltepec.

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 three and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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: 12 km WNW of Xochistlahuaca, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.3622° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.8233° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km WNW of Xochistlahuaca, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-12 10:26:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-12 10:46:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 0.76 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us10007suf Id of event.
Event Code 10007suf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007suf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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