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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 11 km SW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala

Posted by admin on August 13, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.1226S, -91.3718WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64.72 km (40 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:30:15 / 1:30 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000322j. Id of event: us1000322j. Exact location, longitude -91.3718° West, latitude 14.1226° North, depth = 64.72 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/08/15 / 2015-08-13 19:30:15 / August 13, 2015 @ 7:30 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 100 km (62 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop). Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Marcos, Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guazacapán.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km SW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.3718° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.1226° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SW 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 2015-08-13 19:30:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-13 19:51:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 13 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 390 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 0.507 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us1000322j Id of event.
Event Code 1000322j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000322j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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