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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala

Posted by admin on May 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.9965S, -91.3076WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/05/16 / 2016-05-17 23:46:51 / May 17, 2016 @ 11:46 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 69.53 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10005i3r. Event ids that are associated: us10005i3r. The temblor was picked up at 17:46:51 / 5:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -91.3076° West, 13.9965° North, depth 69.53 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Flores Costa Cuca, Cantel, Amatitlán (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Chimaltenango (c. 82 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Amatitlán (c. 71 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Sololá (c. 45 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 22 km S of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.3076° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9965° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km S 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 2016-05-17 23:46:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-18 00:07:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 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 285 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 0.645 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us10005i3r Id of event.
Event Code 10005i3r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005i3r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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