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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Puerto San Jose in Guatemala


Earthquake location 13.3395S, -90.9469WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Puerto San Jose in Guatemala. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -90.9469° West, latitude 13.3395° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002ybs. Id of event: us20002ybs. The temblor was detected at 01:53:30 / 1:53 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/07/15 / 2015-07-18 07:53:30 / July 18, 2015 @ 7:53 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Masagua, Taxisco, La Gomera. Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Masagua (c. 10 000 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Taxisco (c. 6 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 66 km SSW of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.9469° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.3395° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km SSW of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-18 07:53:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-18 08:16:33 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 3.4 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 326 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 3.143 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us20002ybs Id of event.
Event Code 20002ybs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002ybs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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