Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Puerto San Jose in Guatemala

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Puerto San Jose in Guatemala. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/12/19 / 2019-12-19 14:41:59 / December 19, 2019 @ 2:41 pm. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:41:59 / 8:41 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -91.002 West, latitude 13.7223 North, depth = 72.93 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70006nhs. Unique identifier: us70006nhs. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 72.93 km (45 miles).

Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jocotenango, Petapa, Villa Canales (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Amatitlán (c. 71 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Antigua Guatemala (c. 39 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Palín (c. 31 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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: 29 km SW of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-91.002° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.7223° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	72.93 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km SW of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-12-19 14:41:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-19 15:31:41	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	340	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	3.636	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	151	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	us70006nhs	Id of event.
Event Code	70006nhs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006nhs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.7 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-91.002° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

13.7223° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

72.93 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

29km SW of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2019-12-19 14:41:59

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-12-19 15:31:41

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

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

340

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

3.636

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.25 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

151

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us70006nhs

Id of event.

Event Code

70006nhs

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us70006nhs,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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