Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Santa Cruz Naranjo in Guatemala

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Santa Cruz Naranjo in Guatemala on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 176.7 km (110 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/07/19 / 2019-07-05 00:20:02 / July 5, 2019 @ 12:20 am. Exact location, longitude -90.429° West, latitude 14.3583° North, depth = 176.7 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70004kq8. Event ids that are associated: us70004kq8. The temblor was picked up at 18:20:02 / 6:20 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sololá, Ipala, Zacualpa. Epicenter of the event was 33 km (20 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km WSW of Santa Cruz Naranjo, Guatemala.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-90.429° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.3583° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	176.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km WSW of Santa Cruz Naranjo, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-05 00:20:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-16 02:28:44	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	1.036	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	148	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	us70004kq8	Id of event.
Event Code	70004kq8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70004kq8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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