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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near La Gomera in Guatemala

Posted by admin on June 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.7259S, -91.3806WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 53 kilometers (33 miles) from La Gomera in Guatemala on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us1000f29f. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000f29f. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -91.3806° West, 13.7259° North, depth 35 km. The temblor was detected at 08:55:47 / 8:55 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/06/18 / 2018-06-26 14:55:47 / June 26, 2018 @ 2:55 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Chicacao (c. 20 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cuyotenango, Escuintla, Mazatenango (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 53 km SW of La Gomera, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.3806° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.7259° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km SW of La Gomera, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-26 14:55:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-26 18:47:56 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 0.85 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us1000f29f Id of event.
Event Code 1000f29f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000f29f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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