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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 41 km SW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala


Earthquake location 13.9283S, -91.5687WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/03/20 / 2020-03-09 07:19:32 / March 9, 2020 @ 7:19 am. Exact location of earthquake, -91.5687° West, 13.9283° North, depth 46.63 km. The temblor was detected at 01:19:32 / 1:19 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60008ccq. Id of event: us60008ccq. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 46.63 km (29 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Santiago Atitlán (c. 33 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ocós, Santa Clara La Laguna, Yepocapa (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every 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: 41 km SW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.5687° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9283° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-09 07:19:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-09 08:41:34 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 284 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 0.605 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 129 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 us60008ccq Id of event.
Event Code 60008ccq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008ccq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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