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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Iztapa in Guatemala

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Iztapa in Guatemala on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/11/24 / 2024-11-07 12:47:19 / November 7, 2024 @ 12:47 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:47:19 / 12:47 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000nqe2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nqe2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 46.905 km, -90.702° West, 13.5504° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.905 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Barberena (c. 30 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Cuilapa (c. 16 500 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Chiquimulilla (c. 12 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barberena, Tacuba, Cuilapa.

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 three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 42 km S of Iztapa, Guatemala.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-90.702° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.5504° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46.905 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42 km S of Iztapa, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-07 12:47:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-07 13:40:13	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	42	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.962	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.34 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	us7000nqe2	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nqe2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nqe2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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