Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Champerico in Guatemala

Posted by admin on September 19, 2015 0 Comments

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -91.7557 West, latitude 13.7933 North, depth = 30.3 km. Id of earthquake: us20003ltk. Event ids that are associated: us20003ltk. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/09/15 / 2015-09-19 09:40:24 / September 19, 2015 @ 9:40 am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:40:24 / 3:40 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.3 km (19 miles).

The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Nuevo San Carlos (c. 19 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Tiquisate (c. 18 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 14 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Samayac, San Felipe, Ocós (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-two 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

How would you describe the shaking?

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: 58 km SSE of Champerico, Guatemala.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-91.7557° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.7933° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	30.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58km SSE of Champerico, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-19 09:40:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-19 09:55:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.729	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	144	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	us20003ltk	Id of event.
Event Code	20003ltk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003ltk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Champerico in Guatemala

How would you describe the shaking?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information