A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 74.27 km (46 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000ayga. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000ayga. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/10/17 / 2017-10-30 06:42:41 / October 30, 2017 @ 6:42 am. Exact location, longitude -91.9195° West, latitude 14.2235° North, depth = 74.27 km. The temblor was detected at 00:42:41 / 12:42 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Francisco El Alto, Nahualá, La Gomera (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Francisco El Alto (c. 54 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from San Pedro Sacatepéquez (c. 40 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).
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 fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km S of Champerico, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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