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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Puerto San Jose in Guatemala

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Puerto San Jose in Guatemala. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:30:34 / 8:30 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000j06y. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j06y. Exact location, longitude -90.752° West, latitude 13.6312° North, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/01/19 / 2019-01-04 02:30:34 / January 4, 2019 @ 2:30 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Vicente Pacaya, Cuilapa, Nueva Concepción (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Palín (c. 31 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Barberena (c. 30 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 33 km SSE of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-90.752° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.6312° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km SSE of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-01-04 02:30:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-01-04 05:58:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	247	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	1.275	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	178	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	us2000j06y	Id of event.
Event Code	2000j06y	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000j06y,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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