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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Guatemala

Posted by admin on August 7, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.9618S, -90.7179WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, Guatemala kilometers (0 miles) from Guatemala. Exact location of earthquake, -90.7179° West, 13.9618° North, depth 62.02 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:30:34 / 5:30 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 62.02 km (39 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006byt. Id of event: us10006byt. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/08/16 / 2016-08-07 17:30:34 / August 7, 2016 @ 5:30 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Concepción de Ataco, Tecpán Guatemala, Ahuachapán (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.7179° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9618° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-07 17:30:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-07 17:53:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 298 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 1.1 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us10006byt Id of event.
Event Code 10006byt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006byt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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