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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Champerico in Guatemala

Posted by admin on October 22, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.0796S, -92.3091WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 21/10/20 / 2020-10-21 20:51:18 / October 21, 2020 @ 8:51 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -92.3091 West, latitude 14.0796 North, depth = 41.88 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000cb02. Id of event: us6000cb02. The temblor was detected at 20:51:18 / 8:51 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.88 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Nuevo San Carlos (c. 19 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Colomba (c. 19 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Malacatán (c. 14 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 14 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Tumbador, Malacatán, San Andrés Villa Seca (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 three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 48 km WSW of Champerico, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.3091° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.0796° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48 km WSW of Champerico, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-21 20:51:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-22 21:24:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 312 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 0.741 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 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 us6000cb02 Id of event.
Event Code 6000cb02 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cb02, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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