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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala


Earthquake location 13.769S, -91.3785WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -91.3785 West, latitude 13.769 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/07/19 / 2019-07-20 02:14:00 / July 20, 2019 @ 2:14 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:14:00 / 8:14 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60004vzk. Unique identifier: us60004vzk. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Andrés Villa Seca, Retalhuleu, San Pablo Jocopilas (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Chicacao (c. 20 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-four 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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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 48 km S of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.3785° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.769° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km S of Nueva Concepcion, 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 02:14:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-27 01:00:36 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 259 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 0.811 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 us60004vzk Id of event.
Event Code 60004vzk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004vzk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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