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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 13 km SSW of Masagua, Guatemala

Posted by admin on July 11, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.0866S, -90.8846WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Masagua in Guatemala. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us100096fs. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100096fs. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/06/17 / 2017-06-26 13:42:38 / June 26, 2017 @ 1:42 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was reported at 07:42:38 / 7:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -90.8846° West, 14.0866° North, depth 35 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 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 San Andrés Villa Seca, Chuarrancho, San Pedro Ayampuc.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km SSW of Masagua, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.8846° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.0866° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SSW of Masagua, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-26 13:42:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-11 19:00:52 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 284 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 0.898 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 us100096fs Id of event.
Event Code 100096fs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100096fs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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