Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Guatemala City in Guatemala

Posted by admin on January 31, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.6604S, -90.558WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guatemala City in Guatemala on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -90.558° West, latitude 14.6604° North, depth = 206.33 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/01/16 / 2016-01-04 13:26:53 / January 4, 2016 @ 1:26 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 206.33 km (128 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004e0t. Unique identifier: us10004e0t. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:26:53 / 7:26 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Antonio Suchitepéquez, Santa María Chiquimula, Cobán. Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 5 km (3 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop).

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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

Did you feel the quake?

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: 5 km WNW of Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Copyright © 2016 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.558° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.6604° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 206.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km WNW of Guatemala City, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-04 13:26:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-31 15:25:43 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 1.108 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us10004e0t Id of event.
Event Code 10004e0t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004e0t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2024 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today