A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/11/15 / 2015-11-09 22:37:32 / November 9, 2015 @ 10:37 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -92.008 West, latitude 13.5873 North, depth = 45.79 km. Unique identifier: us10003xvp. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003xvp. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.79 km (28 miles). The temblor was picked up at 16:37:32 / 4:37 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Champerico. Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Champerico (c. 7 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 79 km S of Champerico, Guatemala.
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