Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Puerto San Jose in Guatemala

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Puerto San Jose in Guatemala. Unique identifier: us10007num. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007num. The temblor was detected at 18:03:55 / 6:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/12/16 / 2016-12-11 00:03:55 / December 11, 2016 @ 12:03 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.92 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 13.92 km, -90.8183° West, 13.5893° North.

Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Chiquimulilla (c. 12 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Nueva Concepción (c. 11 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nueva Concepción, Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Escuintla (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-90.8183° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.5893° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.92 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km S of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-12-11 00:03:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-31 04:05:54	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	234	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	1.26	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	176	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	us10007num	Id of event.
Event Code	10007num	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007num,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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