A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Iztapa in Guatemala. 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 51.34 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000412e. Unique identifier: us2000412e. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/10/15 / 2015-10-31 12:13:58 / October 31, 2015 @ 12:13 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -90.6608 West, latitude 13.2506 North, depth = 51.34 km. The temblor was detected at 06:13:58 / 6:13 am (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Taxisco (c. 6 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taxisco, Puerto San José (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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: 75 km S of Iztapa, Guatemala.
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