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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near San Bartolome Jocotenango in Guatemala

Posted by admin on February 27, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.1429S, -91.0858WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from San Bartolome Jocotenango in Guatemala. Event id: us2000d6z3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d6z3. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 253.85 km (158 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 10:28:55 / 10:28 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/02/18 / 2018-02-14 16:28:55 / February 14, 2018 @ 4:28 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -91.0858 West, latitude 15.1429 North, depth = 253.85 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Villa Canales, Palencia, San Vicente Pacaya (min 5000 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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 5 km S of San Bartolome Jocotenango, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.0858° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.1429° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 253.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km S of San Bartolome Jocotenango, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-14 16:28:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-27 04:15:45 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 298 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 0.438 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us2000d6z3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d6z3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d6z3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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