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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Ocos in Guatemala

Posted by admin on June 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.1099S, -92.6882WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Ocos in Guatemala. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/06/16 / 2016-06-14 10:50:07 / June 14, 2016 @ 10:50 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -92.6882° West, 14.1099° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us200064au. Unique identifier: us200064au. The temblor was reported at 04:50:07 / 4:50 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mazatán, Ciudad Tecún Umán, Champerico (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Ciudad Tecún Umán (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Ocós (c. 9 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Champerico (c. 7 800 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Mazatán (c. 5 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 69 km SW of Ocos, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.6882° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.1099° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km SW of Ocos, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-14 10:50:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-14 11:10:45 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 1.047 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us200064au Id of event.
Event Code 200064au An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200064au, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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