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

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Tres Picos in Mexico. Unique identifier: us2000akkk. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000akkk. Exact location of event, longitude -93.832 West, latitude 15.182 North, depth = 60.95 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 60.95 km (38 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:08:47 / 11:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/09/17 / 2017-09-12 05:08:47 / September 12, 2017 @ 5:08 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mapastepec, Tonalá, Paredón. Event epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) from Tonalá (c. 32 900 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Mapastepec (c. 16 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Pijijiapan (c. 15 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Paredón (c. 6 100 pop). Close country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days ninety-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-93.832° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.182° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	60.95 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	82km SSW 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	2017-09-12 05:08:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-12 05:30:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.6	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	434	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	2.167	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.01 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	121	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000akkk	Id of event.
Event Code	2000akkk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000akkk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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