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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near La Gomera in Guatemala

Posted by admin on December 30, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.1687S, -91.0902WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from La Gomera in Guatemala on Tuesday. 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 88.44 km (55 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/12/15 / 2015-12-30 03:25:35 / December 30, 2015 @ 3:25 am. Event id: us10004acp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004acp. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -91.0902 West, latitude 14.1687 North, depth = 88.44 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:25:35 / 9:25 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San José Acatempa, San Carlos Sija, Momostenango (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 10 km NNW of La Gomera, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.0902° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.1687° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NNW of La Gomera, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-30 03:25:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-30 03:45:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.5 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 388 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 0.684 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us10004acp Id of event.
Event Code 10004acp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004acp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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