Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near San Jose Ojetenan in Guatemala

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from San Jose Ojetenan in Guatemala on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/10/15 / 2015-10-13 07:19:41 / October 13, 2015 @ 7:19 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:19:41 / 1:19 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10003n86. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003n86. Exact location, longitude -91.9282° West, latitude 15.2675° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Pablo Jocopilas, Santo Tomás La Unión, Samayac. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Event epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Huehuetenango (c. 79 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Totonicapán (c. 69 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from San Francisco El Alto (c. 54 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop).

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

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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. 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: 6 km NE of San Jose Ojetenan, Guatemala.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-91.9282° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.2675° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km NE of San Jose Ojetenan, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-10-13 07:19:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-24 09:45:01	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	0.413	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	128	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	us10003n86	Id of event.
Event Code	10003n86	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003n86,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.2 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-91.9282° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

15.2675° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

6km NE of San Jose Ojetenan, Guatemala

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2015-10-13 07:19:41

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2015-10-24 09:45:01

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-360

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

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

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

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

0.413

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.61 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

128

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us10003n86

Id of event.

Event Code

10003n86

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us10003n86,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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