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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Puerto San Jose in Guatemala


Earthquake location 13.4213S, -91.3033WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Puerto San Jose in Guatemala. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/01/18 / 2018-01-07 19:01:28 / January 7, 2018 @ 7:01 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000c1sh. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000c1sh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -91.3033 West, latitude 13.4213 North, depth = 44.48 km. The temblor was detected at 13:01:28 / 1:01 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.48 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Democracia, Tiquisate, Nueva Concepción (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Tiquisate (c. 18 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Nueva Concepción (c. 11 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from La Democracia (c. 5 500 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 76 km SW of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.3033° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.4213° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km SW of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-07 19:01:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-07 19:28:01 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 326 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 2.032 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us1000c1sh Id of event.
Event Code 1000c1sh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000c1sh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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