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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Barillas in Guatemala

Posted by admin on September 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.9626S, -91.3139WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Barillas in Guatemala. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:09:51 / 10:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -91.3139° West, latitude 15.9626° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006j2b. Unique identifier: us10006j2b. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/08/16 / 2016-08-31 16:09:51 / August 31, 2016 @ 4:09 pm UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Las Margaritas (c. 103 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Huehuetenango (c. 79 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Jacaltenango (c. 34 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Nebaj (c. 23 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Barillas (c. 14 100 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from San Mateo Ixtatán (c. 13 200 pop). Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Trinitaria, Las Margaritas, Sacapulas (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km N of Barillas, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.3139° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.9626° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km N of Barillas, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-31 16:09:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-01 00:30:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 259 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 0.666 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us10006j2b Id of event.
Event Code 10006j2b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006j2b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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