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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Champerico in Guatemala


Earthquake location 13.6734S, -91.957WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008rx6. Id of event: us70008rx6. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:04:49 / 2:04 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -91.957° West, 13.6734° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/04/20 / 2020-04-08 20:04:49 / April 8, 2020 @ 8:04 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ocós, Tiquisate, Nueva Concepción (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 94 km (58 miles) from Tiquisate (c. 18 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Nueva Concepción (c. 11 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Ocós (c. 9 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Champerico (c. 7 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 69 km S of Champerico, Guatemala.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.957° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.6734° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km S 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 2020-04-08 20:04:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-08 22:24:02 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 0.883 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us70008rx6 Id of event.
Event Code 70008rx6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008rx6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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