A 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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