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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Pueblo Nuevo in Guatemala

Posted by admin on December 15, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.7007S, -91.5225WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Pueblo Nuevo in Guatemala. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/12/17 / 2017-12-15 09:07:44 / December 15, 2017 @ 9:07 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -91.5225 West, latitude 14.7007 North, depth = 110.54 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110.54 km (69 miles). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:07:44 / 3:07 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000c4rw. Unique identifier: us2000c4rw.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Concepción, Villa Nueva, Chajul. The epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Chimaltenango (c. 82 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 5 km NNE of Pueblo Nuevo, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.5225° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7007° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NNE of Pueblo Nuevo, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-15 09:07:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-15 09:33:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 404 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 0.241 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000c4rw Id of event.
Event Code 2000c4rw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c4rw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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