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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala


Earthquake location 13.702S, -91.5025WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000350l. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000350l. Exact location of event, longitude -91.5025 West, latitude 13.702 North, depth = 77.06 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/08/15 / 2015-08-09 11:03:55 / August 9, 2015 @ 11:03 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 77.06 km (48 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:03:55 / 5:03 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 88 km (54 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Tiquisate (c. 18 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Patulul (c. 14 200 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Santa Bárbara (c. 12 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Masagua, Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Patulul (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 59 km SSW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.5025° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.702° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km 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 2015-08-09 11:03:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-28 13:40:02 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 259 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 2.191 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 us1000350l Id of event.
Event Code 1000350l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000350l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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