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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Amapala in Honduras


Earthquake location 13.0304S, -87.7414WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Amapala in Honduras on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:51:29 / 1:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -87.7414 West, latitude 13.0304 North, depth = 98.84 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 98.84 km (61 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/07/19 / 2019-07-14 19:51:29 / July 14, 2019 @ 7:51 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004k6d. Id of event: us70004k6d.

Close country/countries, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from San Miguel (c. 161 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Usulután (c. 51 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Somotillo, Jucuapa, Corinto (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 30 km SSW of Amapala, Honduras. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.7414° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0304° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SSW of Amapala, Honduras Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-14 19:51:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-14 20:10:54 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 259 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 1.117 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us70004k6d Id of event.
Event Code 70004k6d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004k6d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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