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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Cahabon in Guatemala

Posted by admin on November 1, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.8238S, -89.899WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Cahabon in Guatemala. Id of earthquake: us7000624r. Event ids that are associated: us7000624r. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -89.899° West, 15.8238° North, depth 40.14 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:25:21 / 2:25 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40.14 km (25 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/11/19 / 2019-11-01 20:25:21 / November 1, 2019 @ 8:25 pm.

The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Cobán (c. 53 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Panzós (c. 25 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from San Cristóbal Verapaz (c. 19 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Poptún (c. 17 300 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Chisec (c. 17 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from El Estor (c. 15 800 pop). Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Cristóbal Verapaz, Sayaxché, Santa Cruz Verapaz.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 29 km NNW of Cahabon, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.899° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.8238° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km NNW of Cahabon, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-01 20:25:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-01 21:05:55 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 246 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 1.086 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us7000624r Id of event.
Event Code 7000624r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000624r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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