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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala

Posted by admin on July 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.1327S, -91.3314WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala. 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 60.42 km (38 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002nee. Id of event: us10002nee. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/15 / 2015-07-04 13:17:53 / July 4, 2015 @ 1:17 pm. Exact location of event, depth 60.42 km, -91.3314° West, 14.1327° North. The temblor was detected at 07:17:53 / 7:17 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Chimaltenango (c. 82 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Chichicastenango (c. 79 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Amatitlán (c. 71 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Martín Jilotepeque, Chichicastenango, San Francisco El Alto (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km SSW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.3314° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.1327° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-04 13:17:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-26 16:30:16 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 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 0.525 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us10002nee Id of event.
Event Code 10002nee An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002nee, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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