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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near San Luis Ixcan in Guatemala

Posted by admin on July 22, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.6948S, -91.0457WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from San Luis Ixcan in Guatemala. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004qaj. Id of event: us70004qaj. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:08:56 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/07/19 / 2019-07-22 01:08:56 / July 22, 2019 @ 1:08 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -91.0457° West, latitude 15.6948° North, depth = 10 km. 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 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Chichicastenango (c. 79 800 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Huehuetenango (c. 79 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Totonicapán (c. 69 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Francisco El Alto (c. 54 500 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Cobán (c. 53 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Jacaltenango (c. 34 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Momostenango (c. 31 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Carlos Sija, San Miguel Chicaj, San Francisco El Alto.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 11 km SSE of San Luis Ixcan, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.0457° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.6948° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSE of San Luis Ixcan, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-22 01:08:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-22 01:32:21 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 0.578 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us70004qaj Id of event.
Event Code 70004qaj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004qaj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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