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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Santa Cruz Verapaz in Guatemala

Posted by admin on January 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.5066S, -90.5809WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Santa Cruz Verapaz in Guatemala on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000c0mp. Unique identifier: us1000c0mp. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.7 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 05:43:06 / 5:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/01/18 / 2018-01-04 11:43:06 / January 4, 2018 @ 11:43 am. Exact location of event, longitude -90.5809 West, latitude 15.5066 North, depth = 34.7 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 97 km (60 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Chinautla (c. 97 200 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Chimaltenango (c. 82 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Chichicastenango (c. 79 800 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Huehuetenango (c. 79 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz Balanyá, Huehuetenango, Chimaltenango.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 22 km NW of Santa Cruz Verapaz, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.5809° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.5066° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km NW of Santa Cruz Verapaz, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-04 11:43:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-04 12:23:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 326 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 1.684 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 us1000c0mp Id of event.
Event Code 1000c0mp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000c0mp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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