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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Malacatancito in Guatemala


Earthquake location 15.2698S, -91.5214WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Malacatancito in Guatemala on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 221.682 km, -91.5214° West, 15.2698° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 221.682 km (138 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mcm9. Id of event: us7000mcm9. The temblor was picked up at 09:09:17 / 9:09 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/04/24 / 2024-04-17 09:09:17 / April 17, 2024 @ 9:09 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Comalapa, Santo Domingo Suchitepéquez, Tapachula. Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Chichicastenango (c. 79 800 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Huehuetenango (c. 79 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Totonicapán (c. 69 700 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from San Francisco El Alto (c. 54 500 pop).

Every 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km NW of Malacatancito, Guatemala.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.5214° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.2698° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 221.682 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km NW of Malacatancito, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-17 09:09:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-16 04:46:35 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.706 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us7000mcm9 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mcm9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mcm9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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