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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 3 km SE of Magdalena Milpas Altas, Guatemala

Posted by admin on March 28, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.5226S, -90.6562WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Magdalena Milpas Altas in Guatemala. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:46:28 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/03/19 / 2019-03-27 22:46:28 / March 27, 2019 @ 10:46 pm. Event id: us2000k67m. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000k67m. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -90.6562° West, 14.5226° North.

Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa María Chiquimula, Cantel, Mazatenango (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 20 km (13 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km SE of Magdalena Milpas Altas, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.6562° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.5226° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SE of Magdalena Milpas Altas, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-27 22:46:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-28 00:23:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 260 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 1.005 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us2000k67m Id of event.
Event Code 2000k67m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k67m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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