Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Champerico in Guatemala

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Champerico 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 65.82 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 17:09:46 / 5:09 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/12/19 / 2019-12-23 23:09:46 / December 23, 2019 @ 11:09 pm. Unique identifier: us70006qce. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006qce. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -91.8789 West, latitude 14.4119 North, depth = 65.82 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tacaná, Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Santa María Chiquimula. The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Totonicapán (c. 69 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Francisco El Alto (c. 54 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Sololá (c. 45 400 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 four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km NNE of Champerico, Guatemala.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-91.8789° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.4119° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	65.82 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km NNE 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	2019-12-23 23:09:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-24 00:11:07	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	312	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	0.21	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	193	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	us70006qce	Id of event.
Event Code	70006qce	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006qce,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-91.8789° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

14.4119° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

65.82 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

13km NNE 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

2019-12-23 23:09:46

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-12-24 00:11:07

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

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

312

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.21

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.74 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

193

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us70006qce

Id of event.

Event Code

70006qce

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us70006qce,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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