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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Rio Bravo in Guatemala

Posted by admin on December 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.3729S, -91.365WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Rio Bravo in Guatemala. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -91.365 West, latitude 14.3729 North, depth = 94.21 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 94.21 km (59 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200082mc. Id of event: us200082mc. The temblor was detected at 15:18:32 / 3:18 pm (local time epicenter). 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: 19/12/16 / 2016-12-19 21:18:32 / December 19, 2016 @ 9:18 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taxisco, Chinautla, Fraijanes (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 6 km WSW of Rio Bravo, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.365° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.3729° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 94.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km WSW of Rio Bravo, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-19 21:18:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-19 22:20:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 370 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 0.353 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us200082mc Id of event.
Event Code 200082mc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200082mc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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