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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near La Gomera in Guatemala

Posted by admin on August 20, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.6602S, -91.2284WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from La Gomera in Guatemala. Exact location, longitude -91.2284° West, latitude 13.6602° North, depth = 14.37 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000328q. Id of event: us1000328q. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.37 km (9 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:03:04 / 9:03 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/07/15 / 2015-07-26 03:03:04 / July 26, 2015 @ 3:03 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Escuintla, Santa Bárbara, Patulul (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Tiquisate (c. 18 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Patulul (c. 14 200 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 50 km SSW of La Gomera, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.2284° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.6602° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km SSW of La Gomera, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-26 03:03:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-20 05:11:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 271 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 1.596 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 197 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 us1000328q Id of event.
Event Code 1000328q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000328q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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