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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Puerto San Jose in Guatemala


Earthquake location 13.4009S, -90.9557WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Puerto San Jose in Guatemala on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/07/16 / 2016-07-10 07:08:32 / July 10, 2016 @ 7:08 am. Exact location, longitude -90.9557° West, latitude 13.4009° North, depth = 35 km. 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 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 01:08:32 / 1:08 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us100062c7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100062c7.

Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Democracia, Taxisco, Masagua. Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Masagua (c. 10 000 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Taxisco (c. 6 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from La Democracia (c. 5 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 59 km SSW of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.9557° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.4009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km SSW 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 2016-07-10 07:08:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-10 07:51:58 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 271 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 1.7 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us100062c7 Id of event.
Event Code 100062c7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100062c7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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