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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Puerto San Jose in Guatemala

Posted by admin on August 15, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.0232S, -90.9205WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Puerto San Jose in Guatemala on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 66.53 km, -90.9205° West, 14.0232° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66.53 km (41 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/08/15 / 2015-08-15 13:09:28 / August 15, 2015 @ 1:09 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 07:09:28 / 7:09 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us100032kv. Ids that are associated to the event: us100032kv.

Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nahualá, El Palmar, Retalhuleu (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km NW of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.9205° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.0232° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NW 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 2015-08-15 13:09:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-15 13:29:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 15 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 376 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 0.901 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 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 us100032kv Id of event.
Event Code 100032kv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100032kv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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