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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 21 km SE of Chisec, Guatemala


Earthquake location 15.6764S, -90.1498WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Chisec in Guatemala. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us700071a9. Event ids that are associated: us700071a9. Exact location of earthquake, -90.1498° West, 15.6764° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 04:29:36 / 4:29 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 10:29:36 / January 16, 2020 @ 10:29 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Agustín Acasaguastlán, Cubulco, Rabinal (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Cobán (c. 53 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Salamá (c. 40 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Panzós (c. 25 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from San Cristóbal Verapaz (c. 19 700 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Chisec (c. 17 000 pop).

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 21 km SE of Chisec, Guatemala.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.1498° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.6764° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SE of Chisec, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-16 10:29:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-16 22:13:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 179 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 1.262 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us700071a9 Id of event.
Event Code 700071a9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700071a9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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