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Light earthquake 4 mag, 3 km WNW of Jamalteca, Honduras


Earthquake location 14.7075S, -87.6184WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Jamalteca in Honduras. Id of earthquake: us200062iv. Event ids that are associated: us200062iv. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/05/16 / 2016-05-08 14:00:57 / May 8, 2016 @ 2:00 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 16.53 km (10 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:00:57 / 8:00 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 event, longitude -87.6184 West, latitude 14.7075 North, depth = 16.53 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaimaca, La Lima, Tegucigalpa (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Tegucigalpa (c. 850 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from El Progreso (c. 100 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Comayagua (c. 58 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from La Lima (c. 46 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Siguatepeque (c. 43 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Villanueva (c. 31 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 3 km WNW of Jamalteca, Honduras.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.6184° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7075° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WNW of Jamalteca, Honduras Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-08 14:00:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-07 13:32:35 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 246 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 0.728 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us200062iv Id of event.
Event Code 200062iv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200062iv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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