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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near La Gomera in Guatemala

Posted by admin on May 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.642S, -91.3957WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from La Gomera in Guatemala. Unique identifier: us20005iks. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005iks. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:40:01 / 10:40 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -91.3957° West, 13.642° North, depth 35 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/04/16 / 2016-04-10 16:40:01 / April 10, 2016 @ 4:40 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Champerico, Santo Domingo Suchitepéquez, Santa Bárbara (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Tiquisate (c. 18 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Patulul (c. 14 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Santa Bárbara (c. 12 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 61 km SW of La Gomera, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.3957° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.642° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km SW 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 2016-04-10 16:40:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-10 13:48:04 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 0.924 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 us20005iks Id of event.
Event Code 20005iks An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005iks, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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