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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near San Luis Ixcan in Guatemala

Posted by admin on July 3, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.6571S, -90.9922WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from San Luis Ixcan in Guatemala. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us70004970. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004970. The temblor was picked up at 04:13:26 / 4:13 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/07/19 / 2019-07-03 10:13:26 / July 3, 2019 @ 10:13 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -90.9922 West, latitude 15.6571 North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Chichicastenango (c. 79 800 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Huehuetenango (c. 79 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Totonicapán (c. 69 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Francisco El Alto (c. 54 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Cobán (c. 53 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Jacaltenango (c. 34 100 pop). Close country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Francisco El Alto, Totonicapán, Huitán (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 18 km SE of San Luis Ixcan, Guatemala.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.9922° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.6571° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km SE of San Luis Ixcan, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-03 10:13:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-03 10:38:03 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 0.596 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us70004970 Id of event.
Event Code 70004970 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004970, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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