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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Champerico in Guatemala


Earthquake location 13.3946S, -92.2167WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 105 kilometers (65 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 04/06/18 / 2018-06-04 15:06:45 / June 4, 2018 @ 3:06 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -92.2167° West, 13.3946° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000eigv. Id of event: us1000eigv. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:06:45 / 9:06 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Champerico (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 106 km (66 miles) from Champerico (c. 7 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 105 km SSW of Champerico, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.2167° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.3946° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105km SSW 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 2018-06-04 15:06:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-04 15:23:55 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 416 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 1.232 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us1000eigv Id of event.
Event Code 1000eigv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eigv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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