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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Champerico in Guatemala

Posted by admin on November 12, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.2422S, -91.7676WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala. The temblor was reported at 03:21:46 / 3:21 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cdmk. Id of event: us7000cdmk. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/11/20 / 2020-11-12 03:21:46 / November 12, 2020 @ 3:21 am. Exact location of event, longitude -91.7676 West, latitude 14.2422 North, depth = 67.68 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 67.68 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Totonicapán (c. 69 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from San Francisco El Alto (c. 54 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Sololá (c. 45 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mazatán, Cabricán, Patzicía (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km ESE of Champerico, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.7676° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.2422° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km ESE 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 2020-11-12 03:21:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-12 03:39:59 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 354 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 0.289 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us7000cdmk Id of event.
Event Code 7000cdmk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cdmk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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