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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near La Gomera in Guatemala

Posted by admin on December 3, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.647S, -91.251WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from La Gomera in Guatemala. The temblor was picked up at 05:23:12 / 5:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -91.251° West, 13.647° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/11/17 / 2017-11-03 11:23:12 / November 3, 2017 @ 11:23 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Unique identifier: us2000bhnu. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000bhnu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Escuintla, Santa Bárbara, Patulul. Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Tiquisate (c. 18 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Patulul (c. 14 200 pop). Nearby 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 seven, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 52 km SSW of La Gomera, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.251° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.647° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km SSW of La Gomera, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-03 11:23:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-03 07:22:12 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 259 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 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us2000bhnu Id of event.
Event Code 2000bhnu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bhnu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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