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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near San Mateo del Mar in Mexico

Posted by admin on March 5, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.7639S, -94.7967WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from San Mateo del Mar in Mexico. Global time and date of event 05/03/25 / 2025-03-05 09:43:15 / March 5, 2025 @ 9:43 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -94.7967° West, 15.7639° North, depth 47.242 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 47.242 km (29 miles). The temblor was detected at 09:43:15 / 9:43 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000px0a. Event ids that are associated: us6000px0a.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arriaga, Jalapa, Paredón (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Salina Cruz (c. 73 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Juchitán de Zaragoza (c. 67 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (c. 37 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from San Jerónimo Ixtepec (c. 23 200 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Arriaga (c. 22 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Unión Hidalgo (c. 12 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Chahuite (c. 9 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Las Amilpas (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 53 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.7967° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.7639° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.242 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53 km SSE of San Mateo del Mar, Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-05 09:43:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-05 10:02:42 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 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 81 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.609 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us6000px0a Id of event.
Event Code 6000px0a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000px0a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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