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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Iztapa in Guatemala

Posted by admin on May 3, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.3273S, -90.542WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Iztapa in Guatemala. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 54.11 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/05/19 / 2019-05-03 10:56:43 / May 3, 2019 @ 10:56 am. Exact location, longitude -90.542° West, latitude 13.3273° North, depth = 54.11 km. Unique identifier: us70003g7j. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003g7j. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:56:43 / 4:56 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tacuba, Chiquimulilla, Guazacapán (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Chiquimulilla (c. 12 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Guazacapán (c. 7 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Taxisco (c. 6 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Tacuba (c. 5 100 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km SSE of Iztapa, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.542° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.3273° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km SSE of Iztapa, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-03 10:56:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-03 11:54:10 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 284 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 1.565 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 us70003g7j Id of event.
Event Code 70003g7j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003g7j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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