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

Posted by admin on June 13, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.899S, -92.229WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20009m3v. Unique identifier: us20009m3v. Exact location of earthquake, -92.229° West, 13.899° North, depth 45.95 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:43:53 / 2:43 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/06/17 / 2017-06-13 08:43:53 / June 13, 2017 @ 8:43 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 45.95 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tiquisate, Santo Domingo Suchitepéquez, San Andrés Villa Seca. Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Nuevo San Carlos (c. 19 200 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Tiquisate (c. 18 200 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 14 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Flores Costa Cuca (c. 12 000 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 55 km SW of Champerico, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.229° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.899° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km 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 08:43:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-13 09:00:16 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 0.809 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 us20009m3v Id of event.
Event Code 20009m3v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009m3v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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