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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Tecpan Guatemala in Guatemala


Earthquake location 14.777S, -90.9995WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Tecpan Guatemala in Guatemala on Friday. The temblor was detected at 09:08:40 / 9:08 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10007cam. Event ids that are associated: us10007cam. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/11/16 / 2016-11-25 15:08:40 / November 25, 2016 @ 3:08 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -90.9995° West, 14.777° North, depth 190.01 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 190.01 km (118 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nuevo Progreso, Taxisco, Puerto San José (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (34 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km NNW of Tecpan Guatemala, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.9995° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.777° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 190.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NNW of Tecpan Guatemala, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-25 15:08:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-25 15:26:23 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 340 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 0.718 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us10007cam Id of event.
Event Code 10007cam An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007cam, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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