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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala

Posted by admin on April 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.0076S, -91.3496WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala. Exact location of event, depth 57.65 km, -91.3496° West, 14.0076° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005asl. Id of event: us20005asl. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/03/16 / 2016-03-16 11:30:46 / March 16, 2016 @ 11:30 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 57.65 km (36 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:30:46 / 5:30 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Chimaltenango (c. 82 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Sololá (c. 45 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Antigua Guatemala (c. 39 400 pop). Nearby 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 El Tejar, Tecpán Guatemala, Chimaltenango.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 21 km SSW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.3496° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.0076° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SSW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-16 11:30:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-10 13:11:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 272 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 0.613 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 us20005asl Id of event.
Event Code 20005asl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005asl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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