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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Villa Canales in Guatemala

Posted by admin on January 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.4748S, -90.5114WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Villa Canales in Guatemala. Id of earthquake: us6000plr3. Event ids that are associated: us6000plr3. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/01/25 / 2025-01-23 01:56:56 / January 23, 2025 @ 1:56 am. Exact location, longitude -90.5114° West, latitude 14.4748° North, depth = 187.367 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 01:56:56 / 1:56 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 187.367 km (116 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 2 km (1 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Bernardino, Candelaria de La Frontera, Santa Cruz Verapaz.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km ESE of Villa Canales, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.5114° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.4748° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 187.367 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km ESE of Villa Canales, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-23 01:56:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-23 02:20:31 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 354 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 89 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.058 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us6000plr3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000plr3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000plr3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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