Major earthquake, 7 mag was detected near San Pablo in Guatemala

A major earthquake magnitude 7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from San Pablo in Guatemala. A tsunami warning has been issued near San Pablo in Guatemala (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 98 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/06/17 / 2017-06-14 07:29:03 / June 14, 2017 @ 7:29 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -92° West, 14.9° North, depth 98 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pt17165003, at00orj0si. Unique identifier: at00orj0si. The 7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:29:03 / 1:29 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santo Domingo Xenacoj, Antigua Guatemala, Ciudad Vieja. Epicenter of the earthquake was 28 km (17 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 130 km (81 miles) from Chimaltenango (c. 82 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Chichicastenango (c. 79 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Huehuetenango (c. 79 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Totonicapán (c. 69 700 pop), 123 km (77 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from San Francisco El Alto (c. 54 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop).

There are an estimated 15 major 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 one and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 3 km S of San Pablo, Guatemala.

Antigua Guatemala Chichicastenango Chimaltenango Ciudad Vieja Coatepeque Guatemala Huehuetenango Mexico Quetzaltenango San Francisco El Alto San Pablo Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa Santo Domingo Xenacoj Tapachula Totonicapán

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-92° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.9° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	98 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km S of San Pablo, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-06-14 07:29:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-14 07:37:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	9	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.6	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	1	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	758	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	165	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4608357	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	4.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	111.599991072	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00orj0si	Id of event.
Event Code	00orj0si	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt17165003,at00orj0si,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

7 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-92° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

14.9° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

98 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

3km S of San Pablo, Guatemala

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2017-06-14 07:29:03

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-06-14 07:37:37

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

4.6

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

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

758

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.

Sources

,pt,at,

A comma-separated list of network contributors.

Number of Stations Used

165

The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.

Horizontal Distance

0.4608357

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

4.43 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

111.599991072

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

at00orj0si

Id of event.

Event Code

00orj0si

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,pt17165003,at00orj0si,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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