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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 80 km SW of Ocos, Guatemala

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Ocos in Guatemala. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 03:00:23 / 3:00 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/02/20 / 2020-02-24 09:00:23 / February 24, 2020 @ 9:00 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -92.6574 West, latitude 13.936 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70007vnd. Event ids that are associated: us70007vnd.

The epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Ciudad Tecún Umán (c. 11 400 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Puerto Madero (c. 9 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ocós (c. 9 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Champerico (c. 7 800 pop). 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 Ciudad Tecún Umán, Puerto Madero, Champerico.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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 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: 80 km SW of Ocos, Guatemala.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-92.6574° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.936° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	80km SW of Ocos, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-24 09:00:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-24 09:34:36	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	385	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	1.101	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	155	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70007vnd	Id of event.
Event Code	70007vnd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007vnd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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