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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Champerico in Guatemala

Posted by admin on August 29, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.3477S, -91.9446WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala. Id of earthquake: us700059tu. Event ids that are associated: us700059tu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 59.23 km (37 miles). Exact location of event, depth 59.23 km, -91.9446° West, 14.3477° North. The temblor was detected at 12:29:01 / 12:29 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 29/08/19 / 2019-08-29 18:29:01 / August 29, 2019 @ 6:29 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Huitán, San Lucas Tolimán, Totonicapán. Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Totonicapán (c. 69 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from San Francisco El Alto (c. 54 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km NNW of Champerico, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.9446° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.3477° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NNW of Champerico, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-29 18:29:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-29 20:12:14 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 271 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 0.299 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us700059tu Id of event.
Event Code 700059tu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700059tu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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