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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, 44 km SW of Chontalpa, Mexico

Posted by admin on January 30, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.4732S, -93.8665WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Chontalpa in Mexico. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000irvq. Unique identifier: us1000irvq. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 179.95 km (112 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/01/19 / 2019-01-30 01:46:12 / January 30, 2019 @ 1:46 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -93.8665° West, latitude 17.4732° North, depth = 179.95 km. The temblor was detected at 19:46:12 / 7:46 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Comalcalco, Texistepec, La Lima. The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Coatzacoalcos (c. 230 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Minatitlan (c. 150 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Cárdenas (c. 85 400 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Comalcalco (c. 41 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Las Choapas (c. 40 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Agua Dulce (c. 36 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Cintalapa de Figueroa (c. 33 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 44 km SW of Chontalpa, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.8665° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.4732° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 179.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km SW of Chontalpa, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-30 01:46:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-30 02:04:39 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 2.2 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 449 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 2.036 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us1000irvq Id of event.
Event Code 1000irvq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000irvq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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