Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Pueblo Nuevo Tiquisate in Guatemala

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Pueblo Nuevo Tiquisate in Guatemala. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000f3bt. Unique identifier: us1000f3bt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:45:20 / 8:45 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.61 km (38 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/06/18 / 2018-06-27 14:45:20 / June 27, 2018 @ 2:45 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -91.5447 West, latitude 14.1004 North, depth = 60.61 km.

Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pastores, El Tejar, Antigua Guatemala. Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Chimaltenango (c. 82 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Totonicapán (c. 69 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Francisco El Alto (c. 54 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km SW of Pueblo Nuevo Tiquisate, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-91.5447° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.1004° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	60.61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km SW of Pueblo Nuevo Tiquisate, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-06-27 14:45:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-27 21:46:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	13	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5	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	361	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	0.446	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	us1000f3bt	Id of event.
Event Code	1000f3bt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000f3bt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.8 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-91.5447° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

14.1004° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

60.61 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

27km SW of Pueblo Nuevo Tiquisate, Guatemala

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2018-06-27 14:45:20

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2018-06-27 21:46:22

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

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

361

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.446

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

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us1000f3bt

Id of event.

Event Code

1000f3bt

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us1000f3bt,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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