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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Sambo Creek in Honduras


Earthquake location 15.7893S, -86.6639WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Sambo Creek in Honduras. Id of earthquake: us2000g02i. Event ids that are associated: us2000g02i. Exact location of earthquake, -86.6639° West, 15.7893° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:25:52 / 5:25 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 08/07/18 / 2018-07-08 23:25:52 / July 8, 2018 @ 11:25 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Trujillo, Tocoa, San Juan Pueblo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from La Ceiba (c. 130 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Tocoa (c. 30 800 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Olanchito (c. 26 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Sabá (c. 9 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Trujillo (c. 9 600 pop). Close country/countries, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 3 km SE of Sambo Creek, Honduras.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.6639° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.7893° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SE of Sambo Creek, Honduras Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-08 23:25:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-09 04:12:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 181 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 1.82 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 279 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000g02i Id of event.
Event Code 2000g02i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g02i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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