Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near La Gomera in Guatemala

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from La Gomera in Guatemala. The temblor was detected at 19:36:32 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/04/24 / 2024-04-16 19:36:32 / April 16, 2024 @ 7:36 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -91.2373° West, latitude 13.9966° North, depth = 72.154 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 72.154 km (45 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000mci1. Event ids that are associated: us7000mci1.

Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Chimaltenango (c. 82 400 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Amatitlán (c. 71 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cantel, Santiago Sacatepéquez, Villa Canales.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-91.2373° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.9966° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	72.154 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km WSW of La Gomera, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-16 19:36:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-04-25 18:29:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	298	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	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.64	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	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	us7000mci1	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mci1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mci1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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