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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 6 km NNE of Palin, Guatemala


Earthquake location 14.4631S, -90.6825WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Palin in Guatemala. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/04/19 / 2019-04-01 01:32:20 / April 1, 2019 @ 1:32 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -90.6825 West, latitude 14.4631 North, depth = 5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000k89l. Unique identifier: us2000k89l. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 19:32:20 / 7:32 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 27 km (17 miles) from Guatemala City (c. 994 900 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop). Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamá, Jalpatagua, Nahualá (min 5000 pop).

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 two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km NNE of Palin, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.6825° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.4631° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NNE of Palin, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-01 01:32:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-01 02:02:04 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 3.1 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 168 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 0.982 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us2000k89l Id of event.
Event Code 2000k89l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k89l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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