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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Puerto San Jose in Guatemala

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Puerto San Jose in Guatemala on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 56.56 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 09:31:38 / 9:31 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/06/16 / 2016-06-15 15:31:38 / June 15, 2016 @ 3:31 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200064ja. Id of event: us200064ja. Exact location of event, longitude -90.8181 West, latitude 13.9322 North, depth = 56.56 km.

Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Patzún, Chicacao, San Pedro Sacatepéquez (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km NE of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-90.8181° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.9322° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	56.56 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km NE 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	2016-06-15 15:31:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-16 21:55:14	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	234	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	1.034	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.16 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	us200064ja	Id of event.
Event Code	200064ja	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200064ja,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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