Earthquakes today

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

Earthquake breaking news, Moderate World Earthquakes Magnitude 5–5.9

Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Iztapa in Guatemala

Posted by admin on May 9, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.7759S, -90.5657WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Iztapa in Guatemala. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -90.5657 West, latitude 13.7759 North, depth = 78.46 km. Event id: us10008qsy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008qsy. The temblor was picked up at 08:15:48 / 8:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/05/17 / 2017-05-09 14:15:48 / May 9, 2017 @ 2:15 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 78.46 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 96 km (60 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Río Bravo, Candelaria de La Frontera, San Juan Sacatepéquez.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 two and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 23 km SE of Iztapa, Guatemala.

Copyright © 2017 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.5657° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.7759° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km SE of Iztapa, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-09 14:15:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-09 14:40:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 417 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 1.299 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 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 us10008qsy Id of event.
Event Code 10008qsy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008qsy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2024 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today