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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 63 km SSW of La Gomera, Guatemala

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Earthquake location 13.5776S, -91.3198WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from La Gomera in Guatemala. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -91.3198 West, latitude 13.5776 North, depth = 35 km. Global time and date of event 02/05/16 / 2016-05-02 21:49:38 / May 2, 2016 @ 9:49 pm UTC/GMT. 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: us10005d61. Id of event: us10005d61. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:49:38 / 3:49 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Tiquisate (c. 18 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Patulul (c. 14 200 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Santa Bárbara (c. 12 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Escuintla, Santa Bárbara, Patulul. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 63 km SSW of La Gomera, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.3198° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.5776° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km SSW 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 2016-05-02 21:49:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-02 22:19:23 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 4.8 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 340 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 1.009 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us10005d61 Id of event.
Event Code 10005d61 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005d61, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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