A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Puerto San Jose in Guatemala. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.09 km (27 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:34:30 / 6:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/12/16 / 2016-12-16 00:34:30 / December 16, 2016 @ 12:34 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000816k. Event ids that are associated: us2000816k. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -90.8635 West, latitude 13.2164 North, depth = 44.09 km.
Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puerto San José (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 78 km S of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala.
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