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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near La Gomera in Guatemala

Posted by admin on December 2, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.8804S, -91.1063WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from La Gomera in Guatemala. Unique identifier: us7000nvj8. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nvj8. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 59.188 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -91.1063 West, latitude 13.8804 North, depth = 59.188 km. Global time and date of event 02/12/24 / 2024-12-02 23:07:00 / December 2, 2024 @ 11:07 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 23:07:00 / 11:07 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Lucía Milpas Altas, Patzún, San Francisco Zapotitlán (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 59 km (36 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Amatitlán (c. 71 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Antigua Guatemala (c. 39 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Santiago Atitlán (c. 33 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km SSW of La Gomera, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.1063° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.8804° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.188 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23 km SSW 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 2024-12-02 23:07:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-02 23:15:32 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 246 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.876 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 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 us7000nvj8 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nvj8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nvj8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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