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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 9 km S of Pajapita, Guatemala


Earthquake location 14.6296S, -92.0336WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Pajapita in Guatemala. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 86.26 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003ma6. Unique identifier: us10003ma6. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/09/15 / 2015-09-28 03:08:17 / September 28, 2015 @ 3:08 am. The temblor was picked up at 21:08:17 / 9:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -92.0336° West, 14.6296° North, depth 86.26 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Totonicapán (c. 69 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Francisco El Alto (c. 54 500 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa María Chiquimula, Villa Comaltitlán, Santiago Atitlán (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km S of Pajapita, Guatemala.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.0336° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.6296° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 86.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km S of Pajapita, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-28 03:08:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-13 23:53:27 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 234 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 0.344 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 us10003ma6 Id of event.
Event Code 10003ma6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003ma6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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