Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Pueblo Nuevo Tiquisate in Guatemala

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Pueblo Nuevo Tiquisate in Guatemala on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/10/15 / 2015-10-30 07:59:41 / October 30, 2015 @ 7:59 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 64.75 km (40 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us200041k0. Unique identifier: us200041k0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 01:59:41 / 1:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -91.5393 West, latitude 14.126 North, depth = 64.75 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Totonicapán (c. 69 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from San Francisco El Alto (c. 54 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Antonio Aguas Calientes, San Andrés Itzapa, El Tumbador.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 25 km SW of Pueblo Nuevo Tiquisate, Guatemala.

Coatepeque El Tumbador Escuintla Guatemala Pueblo Nuevo Tiquisate Quetzaltenango San Andrés Itzapa San Antonio Aguas Calientes San Francisco El Alto Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa Totonicapán

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-91.5393° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.126° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	64.75 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km SW of Pueblo Nuevo Tiquisate, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-10-30 07:59:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-25 08:16:41	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	298	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	1.185	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	174	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	us200041k0	Id of event.
Event Code	200041k0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200041k0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.4 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-91.5393° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

14.126° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

64.75 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

25km SW of Pueblo Nuevo Tiquisate, Guatemala

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

Time

2015-10-30 07:59:41

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2015-11-25 08:16:41

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

298

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

1.185

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

Root Mean Square

0.71 sec

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

Azimuthal Gap

174

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

us200041k0

Id of event.

Event Code

200041k0

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

Event IDS

,us200041k0,

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

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