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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 32 km SW of Nueva Concepción, Guatemala

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Earthquake location 13.9919S, -91.5175WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Nueva Concepción in Guatemala. Event id: us7000mdrg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mdrg. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 02:12:43 / April 22, 2024 @ 2:12 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:12:43 / 2:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51.407 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 51.407 km, -91.5175° West, 13.9919° North.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Panajachel, Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán, Zunil. Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Santiago Atitlán (c. 33 300 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 32 km SW of Nueva Concepción, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.5175° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9919° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.407 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 km SW 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 2024-04-22 02:12:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-30 00:28:47 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 259 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 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.566 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us7000mdrg Id of event.
Event Code 7000mdrg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mdrg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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