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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 62 km S of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico


Earthquake location 15.6724S, -94.7383WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 62 kilometers (39 miles) from San Francisco del Mar in Mexico on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/03/19 / 2019-03-24 12:27:36 / March 24, 2019 @ 12:27 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -94.7383 West, latitude 15.6724 North, depth = 50.3 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jkyx. Unique identifier: us1000jkyx. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 50.3 km (31 miles). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:27:36 / 6:27 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Espinal, Paredón, Santo Domingo Zanatepec. Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from El Espinal (c. 7 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 62 km S of San Francisco del Mar, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.7383° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.6724° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km S of San Francisco 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 2019-03-24 12:27:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-24 12:55:16 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 3.1 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 2.574 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us1000jkyx Id of event.
Event Code 1000jkyx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jkyx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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