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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near San Andres Sajcabaja in Guatemala


Earthquake location 15.2728S, -90.9576WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from San Andres Sajcabaja in Guatemala. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000h6pi. Event ids that are associated: us1000h6pi. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/10/18 / 2018-10-03 23:51:17 / October 3, 2018 @ 11:51 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -90.9576 West, latitude 15.2728 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 17:51:17 / 5:51 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alotenango, Santa María de Jesús, Concepción (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Chinautla (c. 97 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Chimaltenango (c. 82 400 pop). 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 one and in the last 365 days twelve 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km NW of San Andres Sajcabaja, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.9576° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.2728° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NW of San Andres Sajcabaja, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-03 23:51:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-04 00:10:46 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 246 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 0.527 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us1000h6pi Id of event.
Event Code 1000h6pi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h6pi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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