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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Puerto San Jose in Guatemala

Posted by admin on September 4, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.6124S, -90.9211WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Puerto San Jose in Guatemala. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:14:46 / 12:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -90.9211° West, 13.6124° North, depth 25.2 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/09/16 / 2016-09-04 06:14:46 / September 4, 2016 @ 6:14 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10006k9g. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006k9g. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25.2 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Patulul, Palín, Tiquisate (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Palín (c. 31 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Tiquisate (c. 18 200 pop).

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. 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 fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 36 km SSW of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.9211° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.6124° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km SSW of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-04 06:14:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-04 06:50:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 271 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 1.177 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 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 us10006k9g Id of event.
Event Code 10006k9g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006k9g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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