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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Puerto San Jose in Guatemala


Earthquake location 13.2904S, -91.1079WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Puerto San Jose in Guatemala. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 19.62 km, -91.1079° West, 13.2904° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/12/19 / 2019-12-21 20:30:08 / December 21, 2019 @ 8:30 pm. Id of earthquake: us70006pjs. Event ids that are associated: us70006pjs. The temblor was detected at 14:30:08 / 2:30 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.62 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Gomera, Puerto San José. Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 76 km SSW of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala. This data 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 -91.1079° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2904° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km SSW of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-21 20:30:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-25 00:38:09 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 1.352 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us70006pjs Id of event.
Event Code 70006pjs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006pjs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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