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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 8 km S of Champerico, Guatemala


Earthquake location 14.2235S, -91.9195WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 74.27 km (46 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000ayga. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000ayga. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/10/17 / 2017-10-30 06:42:41 / October 30, 2017 @ 6:42 am. Exact location, longitude -91.9195° West, latitude 14.2235° North, depth = 74.27 km. The temblor was detected at 00:42:41 / 12:42 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Francisco El Alto, Nahualá, La Gomera (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Francisco El Alto (c. 54 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from San Pedro Sacatepéquez (c. 40 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

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 fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km S of Champerico, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.9195° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.2235° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km S of Champerico, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-30 06:42:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-30 07:09:57 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 312 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 0.37 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us1000ayga Id of event.
Event Code 1000ayga An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ayga, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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