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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 38 km SW of Ocos, Guatemala


Earthquake location 14.3035S, -92.4789WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Ocos in Guatemala. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.17 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 17:43:23 / 5:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/07/16 / 2016-07-03 23:43:23 / July 3, 2016 @ 11:43 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005zpc. Id of event: us10005zpc. Exact location of event, depth 19.17 km, -92.4789° West, 14.3035° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Nuevo San Carlos (c. 19 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Colomba (c. 19 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Malacatán (c. 14 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Sebastián, Huixtla, Colomba (min 5000 pop). Close 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 38 km SW of Ocos, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.4789° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.3035° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km 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 2016-07-03 23:43:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-04 00:28:17 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 312 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 0.79 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us10005zpc Id of event.
Event Code 10005zpc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005zpc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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