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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 43 km SW of La Gomera, Guatemala

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Earthquake location 13.7965S, -91.3291WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from La Gomera in Guatemala. Id of earthquake: us70004pha. Event ids that are associated: us70004pha. Exact location of earthquake, -91.3291° West, 13.7965° North, depth 53.23 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/07/19 / 2019-07-20 02:10:47 / July 20, 2019 @ 2:10 am. The temblor was picked up at 20:10:47 / 8:10 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 53.23 km (33 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palín, San Felipe, Alotenango. Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (51 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Santiago Atitlán (c. 33 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Palín (c. 31 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-three 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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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 43 km SW of La Gomera, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.3291° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.7965° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km SW of La Gomera, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-20 02:10:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-20 02:28:29 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 312 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 0.806 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 us70004pha Id of event.
Event Code 70004pha An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004pha, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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