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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Tres Picos in Mexico


Earthquake location 15.105S, -94.0601WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 101 km SW of Tres Picos, Mexico (63 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:59:11 / 7:59 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.95 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 21/12/18 / 2018-12-21 01:59:11 / December 21, 2018 @ 1:59 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -94.0601° West, 15.105° North, depth 43.95 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000ivq8. Unique identifier: us2000ivq8.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 101 km SW of Tres Picos, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.0601° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.105° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km 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 2018-12-21 01:59:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-21 02:23:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 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 2.191 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us2000ivq8 Id of event.
Event Code 2000ivq8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ivq8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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