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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Puerto San José in Guatemala

Posted by admin on February 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.7486S, -90.7645WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Puerto San José in Guatemala. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -90.7645 West, latitude 13.7486 North, depth = 80.799 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/02/25 / 2025-02-17 19:56:26 / February 17, 2025 @ 7:56 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000pebq. Event ids that are associated: us7000pebq. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 80.799 km (50 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:56:26 / 7:56 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 Pastores, Río Bravo, Casillas (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Amatitlán (c. 71 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).

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 fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 20 km SSE of Puerto San José, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.7645° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.7486° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.799 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km SSE of Puerto San José, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-17 19:56:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-17 20:27:36 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 298 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.82 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us7000pebq Id of event.
Event Code 7000pebq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pebq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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