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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 4 km ESE of Acatenango, Guatemala

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Earthquake location 14.5296S, -90.9069WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Acatenango in Guatemala. Exact location of event, depth 177.24 km, -90.9069° West, 14.5296° North. Global time and date of event 20/09/17 / 2017-09-20 02:37:35 / September 20, 2017 @ 2:37 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 20:37:35 / 8:37 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 177.24 km (110 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000arfs. Id of event: us2000arfs. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Cristóbal Cucho, Cabricán, San Juan Cotzal (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).

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 four and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 4 km ESE of Acatenango, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.9069° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.5296° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 177.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km ESE of Acatenango, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-20 02:37:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-20 03:08:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 370 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 0.972 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 us2000arfs Id of event.
Event Code 2000arfs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000arfs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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