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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag strikes near San Patricio in Mexico


Earthquake location 18.5043S, -105.1152WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from San Patricio in Mexico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/01/20 / 2020-01-10 15:21:26 / January 10, 2020 @ 3:21 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -105.1152 West, latitude 18.5043 North, depth = 44.31 km. The temblor was reported at 08:21:26 / 8:21 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006xjw. Unique identifier: us70006xjw. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 44.31 km (28 miles).

Event epicenter was 104 km (65 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 130 000 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Manzanillo (c. 110 700 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Cihuatlán (c. 16 500 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from El Colomo (c. 10 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from San Patricio (c. 6 700 pop), 112 km (69 miles) from Las Juntas (c. 6 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Las Juntas, El Colomo, Manzanillo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 90 km SSW of San Patricio, Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -105.1152° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5043° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km SSW of San Patricio, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-10 15:21:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-10 15:41:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 3.542 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 465 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 3.848 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 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 us70006xjw Id of event.
Event Code 70006xjw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006xjw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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