A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala. The temblor was picked up at 05:13:57 / 5:13 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/07/18 / 2018-07-01 11:13:57 / July 1, 2018 @ 11:13 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -91.6576° West, latitude 13.6972° North, depth = 35 km. Id of earthquake: us2000fsxm. Event ids that are associated: us2000fsxm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santo Domingo Suchitepéquez, Río Bravo, La Gomera (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Tiquisate (c. 18 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Nueva Concepción (c. 11 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Champerico (c. 7 800 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Río Bravo (c. 7 600 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Santo Domingo Suchitepéquez (c. 6 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-four 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.
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