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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Buenos Aires in Mexico

Posted by admin on October 25, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.7887S, -92.5593WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Buenos Aires in Mexico on Sunday. Global time and date of event 25/10/20 / 2020-10-25 12:47:59 / October 25, 2020 @ 12:47 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 78.06 km (49 miles). Exact location, longitude -92.5593° West, latitude 14.7887° North, depth = 78.06 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:47:59 / 12:47 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000ccys. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000ccys. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 35 km (21 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Pedro Sacatepéquez (c. 40 000 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Ostuncalco (c. 28 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from San Marcos (c. 25 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Palmar, San Mateo, San Felipe. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 13 km SW of Buenos Aires, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.5593° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7887° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km SW of Buenos Aires, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-25 12:47:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-25 13:04:37 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 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 0.876 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us6000ccys Id of event.
Event Code 6000ccys An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ccys, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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