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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Champerico in Guatemala

Posted by admin on May 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.77S, -91.7827WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala. Unique identifier: us1000dz42. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dz42. Exact location of earthquake, -91.7827° West, 13.77° North, depth 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was reported at 20:41:17 / 8:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/05/18 / 2018-05-06 02:41:17 / May 6, 2018 @ 2:41 am.

Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Nuevo San Carlos (c. 19 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Tiquisate (c. 18 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 14 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nuevo San Carlos, El Asintal, San Bernardino (min 5000 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 60 km SSE of Champerico, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.7827° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.77° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km 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 2018-05-06 02:41:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-06 22:46:46 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 271 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 0.755 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us1000dz42 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dz42 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dz42, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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