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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 69 km SW of Champerico, Guatemala

Posted by admin on June 13, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.8611S, -92.3794WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala. The temblor was detected at 22:37:28 / 10:37 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/06/17 / 2017-06-13 04:37:28 / June 13, 2017 @ 4:37 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -92.3794° West, 13.8611° North, depth 35.98 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 35.98 km (22 miles). Id of earthquake: us20009m37. Event ids that are associated: us20009m37.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pajapita, Flores Costa Cuca, Puerto Madero. Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Flores Costa Cuca (c. 12 000 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Ciudad Tecún Umán (c. 11 400 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Ocós (c. 9 500 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Pajapita (c. 8 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Champerico (c. 7 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 69 km SW of Champerico, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.3794° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.8611° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km 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 2017-06-13 04:37:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-13 04:48:24 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 369 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 0.935 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us20009m37 Id of event.
Event Code 20009m37 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009m37, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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