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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near San Jose El Idolo in Guatemala

Posted by admin on April 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.3752S, -91.4554WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from San Jose El Idolo in Guatemala. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 84.13 km (52 miles). Global time and date of event 01/04/16 / 2016-04-01 05:48:13 / April 1, 2016 @ 5:48 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20005dur. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005dur. Exact location of event, longitude -91.4554 West, latitude 14.3752 North, depth = 84.13 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:48:13 / 11:48 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mixco, San Juan Sacatepéquez, Villa Nueva. Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Event epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Chimaltenango (c. 82 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Chichicastenango (c. 79 800 pop).

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 fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 9 km SSW of San Jose El Idolo, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.4554° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.3752° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSW of San Jose El Idolo, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-01 05:48:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-01 06:15:20 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 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 312 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 0.938 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us20005dur Id of event.
Event Code 20005dur An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005dur, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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