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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 19 km SSE of Gracias, Honduras

Posted by admin on September 17, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.4117S, -88.5423WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Gracias in Honduras. Exact location of event, longitude -88.5423 West, latitude 14.4117 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 17/09/17 / 2017-09-17 05:56:49 / September 17, 2017 @ 5:56 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:56:49 / 11:56 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000apf5. Unique identifier: us2000apf5.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Cojutepeque (c. 48 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Siguatepeque (c. 43 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from San Vicente (c. 41 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Martín (c. 39 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Santa Rosa de Copán (c. 27 800 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Aguilares (c. 21 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Francisco, San Vicente, Ajuterique.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km SSE of Gracias, Honduras. 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 -88.5423° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.4117° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SSE of Gracias, Honduras Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-17 05:56:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-17 06:09:27 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 0.787 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us2000apf5 Id of event.
Event Code 2000apf5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000apf5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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