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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Chicacao in Guatemala

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Chicacao in Guatemala. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 112.66 km (70 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us1000g3r2. Event ids that are associated: us1000g3r2. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 04:53:11 / August 5, 2018 @ 4:53 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -91.3001° West, latitude 14.562° North, depth = 112.66 km. The temblor was reported at 22:53:11 / 10:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fraijanes, Ciudad Tecún Umán, Cunén (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 3 km NNE of Chicacao, Guatemala.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-91.3001° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.562° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	112.66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km NNE of Chicacao, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-05 04:53:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-05 05:11:52	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	271	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	1.885	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	160	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	us1000g3r2	Id of event.
Event Code	1000g3r2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000g3r2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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