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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near La Gomera in Guatemala


Earthquake location 13.7428S, -91.2955WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from La Gomera in Guatemala on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000jc80. Event ids that are associated: us1000jc80. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:07:55 / 8:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -91.2955 West, latitude 13.7428 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/03/19 / 2019-03-08 02:07:55 / March 8, 2019 @ 2:07 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Chicacao (c. 20 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cuyotenango, Yepocapa, Champerico.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 46 km SW of La Gomera, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.2955° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.7428° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km SW of La Gomera, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-08 02:07:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-08 02:28:41 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 284 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 0.868 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 us1000jc80 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jc80 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jc80, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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