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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Nueva Concepción in Guatemala


Earthquake location 14.1802S, -91.1934WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Nueva Concepción in Guatemala. Exact location of earthquake, -91.1934° West, 14.1802° North, depth 74.85 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 74.85 km (47 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:21:19 / 6:21 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/10/20 / 2020-10-23 18:21:19 / October 23, 2020 @ 6:21 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000cc8q. Unique identifier: us6000cc8q.

Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coatepeque, San Miguel Sigüilá, Santa Cruz Naranjo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 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 six and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 11 km E of Nueva Concepción, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.1934° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.1802° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km E of Nueva Concepción, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-23 18:21:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-23 19:24:35 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 271 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 0.594 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 171 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 us6000cc8q Id of event.
Event Code 6000cc8q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cc8q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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