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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Iztapa in Guatemala


Earthquake location 13.6175S, -90.632WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Iztapa in Guatemala. Exact location of event, longitude -90.632 West, latitude 13.6175 North, depth = 58.18 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/10/17 / 2017-10-28 14:51:43 / October 28, 2017 @ 2:51 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58.18 km (36 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000ay1v. Unique identifier: us1000ay1v. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:51:43 / 8:51 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Concepción de Ataco, Jalpatagua (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Palín (c. 31 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Barberena (c. 30 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Acajutla (c. 22 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 35 km SSE of Iztapa, Guatemala.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.632° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.6175° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km SSE 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 2017-10-28 14:51:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-28 16:17:53 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 246 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 1.363 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us1000ay1v Id of event.
Event Code 1000ay1v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ay1v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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