Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near San Mateo del Mar in Mexico

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/09/17 / 2017-09-09 02:43:43 / September 9, 2017 @ 2:43 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 20:43:43 / 8:43 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 50.54 km (31 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -94.8347 West, latitude 15.6386 North, depth = 50.54 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000aijl. Id of event: us2000aijl.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chahuite, Asunción Ixtaltepec, El Espinal (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from El Espinal (c. 7 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-seven, in the last 10 days fifty-seven, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 64 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-94.8347° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.6386° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50.54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	64km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-09 02:43:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-09 03:06:51	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	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	400	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	3.228	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	139	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	us2000aijl	Id of event.
Event Code	2000aijl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000aijl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.1 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-94.8347° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

15.6386° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

50.54 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

64km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico

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

Time

2017-09-09 02:43:43

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-09-09 03:06:51

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

400

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

3.228

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

Root Mean Square

1.25 sec

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

Azimuthal Gap

139

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

us2000aijl

Id of event.

Event Code

2000aijl

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

Event IDS

,us2000aijl,

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

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