Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Moderate World Earthquakes Magnitude 5–5.9

Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Colonia Juárez in Mexico

Posted by admin on March 2, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.9885S, -95.0131WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Colonia Juárez in Mexico. The epicenter was at a depth of 52.738 km (33 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/03/25 / 2025-03-02 03:45:43 / March 2, 2025 @ 3:45 am. Unique identifier: us6000pwe1. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pwe1. The temblor was detected at 03:45:43 / 3:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -95.0131° West, 15.9885° North, depth 52.738 km. 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 Colonia Rincón Viejo, Matías Romero, San Pedro Tapanatepec. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 30 km (18 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Matías Romero (c. 21 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

Questions or comments?

Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 24 km S of Colonia Juárez, Mexico.

Copyright © 2025 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.0131° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.9885° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.738 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km S of Colonia Juárez, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-02 03:45:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-02 04:03:46 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 84 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.78 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us6000pwe1 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pwe1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pwe1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2025 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today