Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Tapanalá in Mexico

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Tapanalá in Mexico. Unique identifier: us6000ahdb. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000ahdb. Exact location of event, longitude -95.7295 West, latitude 15.8832 North, depth = 34.51 km. The temblor was detected at 18:27:12 / 6:27 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 34.51 km (21 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/06/20 / 2020-06-23 18:27:12 / June 23, 2020 @ 6:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Jerónimo Ixtepec, El Espinal, Asunción Ixtaltepec (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Crucecita (c. 15 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Pedro Pochutla (c. 13 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Jalapa (c. 8 300 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-95.7295° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.8832° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.51 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km S of Tapanalá, Mexico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-06-23 18:27:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-23 18:41:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	3.19	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	123	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	us6000ahdb	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ahdb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ahdb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-95.7295° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

15.8832° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

34.51 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

9 km S of Tapanalá, Mexico

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2020-06-23 18:27:12

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-06-23 18:41:35

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

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

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

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

3.19

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.39 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

123

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us6000ahdb

Id of event.

Event Code

6000ahdb

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us6000ahdb,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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