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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Puerto San Jose in Guatemala

Posted by admin on May 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.5735S, -90.8843WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Puerto San Jose in Guatemala. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/05/16 / 2016-05-11 18:19:43 / May 11, 2016 @ 6:19 pm. Exact location, longitude -90.8843° West, latitude 13.5735° North, depth = 38.56 km. Event id: us10005gla. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005gla. The temblor was picked up at 12:19:43 / 12:19 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.56 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Nueva Concepción, Escuintla. Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Chiquimulilla (c. 12 800 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Nueva Concepción (c. 11 100 pop). Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-six 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: 39 km S of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.8843° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.5735° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km S of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-11 18:19:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-11 20:14:37 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 284 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 1.229 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 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 us10005gla Id of event.
Event Code 10005gla An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005gla, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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