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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Amapala in Honduras


Earthquake location 13.2276S, -87.7527WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Amapala in Honduras. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 20:37:27 / 8:37 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 203.39 km (126 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000a16h. Unique identifier: us2000a16h. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/07/17 / 2017-07-26 02:37:27 / July 26, 2017 @ 2:37 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -87.7527 West, latitude 13.2276 North, depth = 203.39 km.

Close country/countries, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from San Lorenzo (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Realejo, Chinandega, Somotillo.

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km SW of Amapala, Honduras. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.7527° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2276° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 203.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km SW of Amapala, Honduras Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-26 02:37:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-26 03:07:42 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 354 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 0.865 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us2000a16h Id of event.
Event Code 2000a16h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a16h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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