Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Champerico in Guatemala

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/03/17 / 2017-03-13 21:04:05 / March 13, 2017 @ 9:04 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37.51 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 37.51 km, -92.2693° West, 13.8276° North. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:04:05 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us100088rh. Unique identifier: us100088rh.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Flores Costa Cuca, Ciudad Tecún Umán, Brisas Barra de Suchiate. Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Flores Costa Cuca (c. 12 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Ciudad Tecún Umán (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Ocós (c. 9 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Champerico (c. 7 800 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 64 km SW of Champerico, Guatemala.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-92.2693° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.8276° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37.51 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	64km SW of Champerico, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-13 21:04:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-13 21:30:45	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	340	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	0.889	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	183	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	us100088rh	Id of event.
Event Code	100088rh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100088rh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.7 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-92.2693° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

13.8276° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

37.51 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

64km SW of Champerico, Guatemala

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2017-03-13 21:04:05

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-03-13 21:30:45

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

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

340

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.889

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.91 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

183

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us100088rh

Id of event.

Event Code

100088rh

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us100088rh,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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