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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Champerico in Guatemala

Posted by admin on May 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.0344S, -91.7596WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000dxty. Unique identifier: us1000dxty. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -91.7596 West, latitude 14.0344 North, depth = 66.45 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/05/18 / 2018-05-04 11:09:34 / May 4, 2018 @ 11:09 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66.45 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:09:34 / 5:09 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Santiago Atitlán (c. 33 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Ostuncalco (c. 28 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Miguel Sigüilá, San Cristóbal Cucho, Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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: 33 km SSE of Champerico, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.7596° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.0344° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km SSE of Champerico, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-04 11:09:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-04 11:46:49 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 0.491 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 us1000dxty Id of event.
Event Code 1000dxty An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dxty, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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