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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 7 km NNW of El Palmar, Guatemala

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Earthquake location 14.7159S, -91.605WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from El Palmar in Guatemala. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/10/16 / 2016-10-20 15:13:14 / October 20, 2016 @ 3:13 pm. Exact location, longitude -91.605° West, latitude 14.7159° North, depth = 105.39 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:13:14 / 9:13 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20007fm9. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007fm9. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 105.39 km (65 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santo Domingo Xenacoj, Santa María de Jesús, Antigua Guatemala (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Chimaltenango (c. 82 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Chichicastenango (c. 79 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Huehuetenango (c. 79 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Totonicapán (c. 69 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 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 two and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km NNW of El Palmar, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.605° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7159° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 105.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NNW of El Palmar, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-20 15:13:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-20 16:38:50 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 326 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 0.209 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us20007fm9 Id of event.
Event Code 20007fm9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007fm9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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