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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala

Posted by admin on July 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.015S, -91.4323WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala. The temblor was picked up at 23:25:46 / 11:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -91.4323° West, 14.015° North, depth 57.76 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/07/16 / 2016-07-30 05:25:46 / July 30, 2016 @ 5:25 am. Id of earthquake: us100068pd. Event ids that are associated: us100068pd. The epicenter was at a depth of 57.76 km (36 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Sololá (c. 45 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Vicente Pacaya, San Mateo, Tecpán Guatemala. Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 24 km SW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.4323° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.015° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-30 05:25:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-30 05:58:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 313 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 0.566 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us100068pd Id of event.
Event Code 100068pd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100068pd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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