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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Puerto San Jose in Guatemala

Posted by admin on June 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.7458S, -90.9718WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Puerto San Jose in Guatemala. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/06/17 / 2017-06-22 21:09:46 / June 22, 2017 @ 9:09 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -90.9718 West, latitude 13.7458 North, depth = 47.68 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:09:46 / 3:09 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.68 km (30 miles). Event id: us20009p48. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009p48.

Event epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Amatitlán (c. 71 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Palín (c. 31 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Barberena (c. 30 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ciudad Vieja (c. 30 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amatitlán, San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Barberena.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 25 km SW of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.9718° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.7458° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km SW 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 2017-06-22 21:09:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-22 23:44:51 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 271 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 1.044 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 us20009p48 Id of event.
Event Code 20009p48 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009p48, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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