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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Amapala in Honduras

Posted by admin on May 23, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.151S, -87.6895WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Amapala in Honduras. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 203.944 km (127 miles). Global time and date of event 23/05/24 / 2024-05-23 08:15:16 / May 23, 2024 @ 8:15 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 203.944 km, -87.6895° West, 13.151° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000n0e0. Event ids that are associated: us6000n0e0. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:15:16 / 8:15 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chichigalpa, Puerto El Triunfo, Corinto (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Chichigalpa (c. 33 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

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

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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: 16 km SSW of Amapala, Honduras.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.6895° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.151° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 203.944 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km SSW of Amapala, Honduras Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-23 08:15:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-23 08:29:36 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 326 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 71 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.693 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us6000n0e0 Id of event.
Event Code 6000n0e0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n0e0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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