Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 53 km SW of La Gomera, Guatemala

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (mg/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from La Gomera in Guatemala. The temblor was reported at 14:28:40 / 2:28 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time of event 09/04/15 / 2015-04-09 20:28:40 / April 9, 2015 @ 8:28 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -91.3664 West, latitude 13.7173 North, depth 10 km, unique identifier, us200025fx.

Close countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Chicacao (c. 20 400 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cuyotenango, Mazatenango, San Bernardino.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-91.3664° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.7173° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53km SW of La Gomera, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-04-09 20:28:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-04-09 23:27:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	285	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	0.863	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	142	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	us200025fx	Id of event.
Event Code	200025fx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200025fx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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