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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Champerico in Guatemala

Posted by admin on January 28, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.9473S, -91.8831WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala. Global time and date of event 28/01/21 / 2021-01-28 10:38:45 / January 28, 2021 @ 10:38 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000dcme. Unique identifier: us6000dcme. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 46.86 km, -91.8831° West, 13.9473° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 46.86 km (29 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:38:45 / 10:38 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nuevo Progreso, Santo Tomás La Unión, Patulul. Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Chicacao (c. 20 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Pablo Jocopilas (c. 20 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Nuevo San Carlos (c. 19 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light 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 ten and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 38 km S of Champerico, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.8831° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9473° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 km S 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 2021-01-28 10:38:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-28 10:53:47 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 0.602 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us6000dcme Id of event.
Event Code 6000dcme An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dcme, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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