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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Champerico in Guatemala

Posted by admin on November 22, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.4168S, -92.0498WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 98 km S of Champerico, Guatemala (61 miles). Id of earthquake: us10003xvr. Event ids that are associated: us10003xvr. Exact location of earthquake, -92.0498° West, 13.4168° North, depth 39.99 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:16:57 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/11/15 / 2015-11-09 23:16:57 / November 9, 2015 @ 11:16 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 39.99 km (25 miles).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 98 km S of Champerico, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.0498° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.4168° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98km S of Champerico, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-09 23:16:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-22 05:31:07 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 1.153 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10003xvr Id of event.
Event Code 10003xvr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003xvr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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