A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 98 km SSW of La Gomera, Guatemala (61 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -91.4965° West, 13.312° North. Id of earthquake: us1000bt2g. Event ids that are associated: us1000bt2g. The temblor was reported at 08:13:35 / 8:13 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/12/17 / 2017-12-19 14:13:35 / December 19, 2017 @ 2:13 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
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-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 98 km SSW of La Gomera, Guatemala.
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