Minor earthquake 3.7 mag, 6 km NNE of Victoria, Honduras

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Victoria in Honduras on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -87.7989 West, latitude 15.5437 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:35:14 / 1:35 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70007pwg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007pwg. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/02/20 / 2020-02-14 07:35:14 / February 14, 2020 @ 7:35 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 25 km (15 miles) from San Pedro Sula (c. 489 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Choloma (c. 139 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from El Progreso (c. 100 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Puerto Cortez (c. 48 000 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from La Lima (c. 46 000 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Villanueva (c. 31 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yoro, Santa Bárbara, Azacualpa.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km NNE of Victoria, Honduras.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-87.7989° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.5437° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km NNE of Victoria, Honduras	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-14 07:35:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-14 08:21:11	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	211	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	1.563	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	77	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70007pwg	Id of event.
Event Code	70007pwg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007pwg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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