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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 24 km NW of San Miguel Panixtlahuaca, Mexico

Posted by admin on February 17, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.4307S, -97.5148WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from San Miguel Panixtlahuaca in Mexico on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -97.5148° West, 16.4307° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000d3ql. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d3ql. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/02/18 / 2018-02-17 03:54:44 / February 17, 2018 @ 3:54 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:54:44 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby 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 Vicente Guerrero, Villa de Zaachila, Ometepec. The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Santiago Pinotepa Nacional (c. 25 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 19 500 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Ometepec (c. 17 800 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (c. 17 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 17 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco (c. 14 600 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Villa de Zaachila (c. 14 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. 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: 24 km NW of San Miguel Panixtlahuaca, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5148° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.4307° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km NW of San Miguel Panixtlahuaca, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-17 03:54:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-17 04:14:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 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 386 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 1.509 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 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 us2000d3ql Id of event.
Event Code 2000d3ql An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d3ql, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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