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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 90 km SSW of Champerico, Guatemala


Earthquake location 13.5298S, -92.2043WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala on Monday. Id of earthquake: us70005889. Event ids that are associated: us70005889. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/08/19 / 2019-08-26 09:44:38 / August 26, 2019 @ 9:44 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 45.36 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -92.2043 West, latitude 13.5298 North, depth = 45.36 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:44:38 / 3:44 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Champerico (c. 7 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Champerico (min 5000 pop).

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 twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 90 km SSW of Champerico, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.2043° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.5298° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km SSW 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 2019-08-26 09:44:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-01 16:37:43 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 298 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 1.105 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 us70005889 Id of event.
Event Code 70005889 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005889, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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