Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Tres Picos in Mexico

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Tres Picos in Mexico on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:34:36 / 2:34 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 69.63 km (43 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/09/17 / 2017-09-08 08:34:36 / September 8, 2017 @ 8:34 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000ahz5. Unique identifier: us2000ahz5. Exact location of event, longitude -93.9693 West, latitude 15.2807 North, depth = 69.63 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arriaga, Pijijiapan, Tonalá. The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 107 km (66 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Pijijiapan (c. 15 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Paredón (c. 6 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 79 km SW of Tres Picos, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-93.9693° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.2807° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	69.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	79km SW 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	2017-09-08 08:34:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-08 08:50:01	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	432	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	2.323	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.99 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	147	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	us2000ahz5	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ahz5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ahz5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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