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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 45 km SSW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala

Posted by admin on September 22, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.8431S, -91.5107WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003mp2. Unique identifier: us20003mp2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 84.51 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/09/15 / 2015-09-22 00:17:30 / September 22, 2015 @ 12:17 am. Exact location of event, depth 84.51 km, -91.5107° West, 13.8431° North. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:17:30 / 6:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Lucas Tolimán, El Palmar, Santo Tomás La Unión. Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Chicacao (c. 20 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from San Pablo Jocopilas (c. 20 300 pop).

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

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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. 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: 45 km SSW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.5107° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.8431° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km 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 2015-09-22 00:17:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-22 01:00:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 2.158 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us20003mp2 Id of event.
Event Code 20003mp2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003mp2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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