Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near La Gomera in Guatemala

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 54 kilometers (34 miles) from La Gomera in Guatemala on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006d4f. Unique identifier: us10006d4f. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 55.93 km (35 miles). Exact location, longitude -91.2355° West, latitude 13.6293° North, depth = 55.93 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:02:29 / 4:02 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/08/16 / 2016-08-11 22:02:29 / August 11, 2016 @ 10:02 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Tiquisate (c. 18 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Patulul (c. 14 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Escuintla, Santa Bárbara, Patulul (min 5000 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 two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 54 km SSW of La Gomera, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Escuintla Guatemala La Gomera Patulul Puerto San Jose Santa Barbara Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa Tiquisate

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-91.2355° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.6293° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55.93 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54km SSW of La Gomera, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-11 22:02:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-22 01:12:49	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	0.995	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	181	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	us10006d4f	Id of event.
Event Code	10006d4f	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006d4f,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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