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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near San Lorenzo in Guatemala

Posted by admin on February 11, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.4248S, -91.5513WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from San Lorenzo in Guatemala on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -91.5513° West, latitude 14.4248° North, depth = 54.18 km. Global time and date of event 11/02/21 / 2021-02-11 23:14:59 / February 11, 2021 @ 11:14 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 54.18 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000dgtq. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000dgtq. The temblor was reported at 23:14:59 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tapachula, Palín, Cacahoatán. Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Chimaltenango (c. 82 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Chichicastenango (c. 79 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Totonicapán (c. 69 700 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 three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-three 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. 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: 7 km SSW of San Lorenzo, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.5513° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.4248° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km SSW of San Lorenzo, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-11 23:14:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-11 23:30:37 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 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 0.17 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 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 us6000dgtq Id of event.
Event Code 6000dgtq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dgtq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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