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Moderate earthquake: M5.4 quake has struck near La Esperanza (El Zapotal) in Mexico


Earthquake location 14.5516S, -93.5574WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was reported 107 km SSW of La Esperanza (El Zapotal), Mexico (66 miles) on Monday. Unique identifier: us6000c8sb. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c8sb. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:14:27 / 4:14 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -93.5574 West, latitude 14.5516 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/10/20 / 2020-10-12 04:14:27 / October 12, 2020 @ 4:14 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 107 km SSW of La Esperanza (El Zapotal), Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -93.5574° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.5516° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 107 km SSW of La Esperanza (El Zapotal), Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-12 04:14:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-19 02:04:53 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 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 1.803 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us6000c8sb Id of event.
Event Code 6000c8sb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c8sb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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