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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Correderos in Honduras

Posted by admin on November 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.4993S, -88.4358WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Correderos in Honduras. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -88.4358° West, 15.4993° North. The temblor was detected at 00:37:08 / 12:37 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007cvx. Unique identifier: us10007cvx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/11/16 / 2016-11-28 06:37:08 / November 28, 2016 @ 6:37 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Morazán, Santa Rosa de Copán, Mezapa. Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from San Pedro Sula (c. 489 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Choloma (c. 139 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from El Progreso (c. 100 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Puerto Barrios (c. 56 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Puerto Cortez (c. 48 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from La Lima (c. 46 000 pop). Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km N of Correderos, Honduras. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.4358° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.4993° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km N of Correderos, Honduras Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-28 06:37:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-28 13:38:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.5 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 303 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 1.412 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 63 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 us10007cvx Id of event.
Event Code 10007cvx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007cvx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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