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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 78 km SW of Champerico, Guatemala


Earthquake location 13.7569S, -92.3879WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala on Monday. Exact location, longitude -92.3879° West, latitude 13.7569° North, depth = 16.42 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.42 km (10 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 11:29:49 / 11:29 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000k98t. Unique identifier: us2000k98t. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/03/19 / 2019-03-04 17:29:49 / March 4, 2019 @ 5:29 pm.

Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Brisas Barra de Suchiate (c. 13 700 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Ocós (c. 9 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Champerico (c. 7 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Brisas Barra de Suchiate, Ocós, Champerico.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 78 km SW of Champerico, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.3879° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.7569° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km SW 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 2019-03-04 17:29:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-03 16:36:25 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 326 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 1.017 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 us2000k98t Id of event.
Event Code 2000k98t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k98t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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