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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala

Posted by admin on May 20, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.2249S, -91.2505WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Nueva Concepcion in Guatemala. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:49:55 / 1:49 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/05/20 / 2020-05-20 07:49:55 / May 20, 2020 @ 7:49 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 71.02 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -91.2505° West, latitude 14.2249° North, depth = 71.02 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009lfm. Id of event: us70009lfm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa María Chiquimula, Santa Catarina Pinula, Taxisco. Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Mixco (c. 473 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Villa Nueva (c. 406 800 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Petapa (c. 141 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Juan Sacatepéquez (c. 136 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Quetzaltenango (c. 132 200 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Villa Canales (c. 122 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km ENE of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -91.2505° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.2249° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 71.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km ENE of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-20 07:49:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-20 08:12:47 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 246 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 0.523 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 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 us70009lfm Id of event.
Event Code 70009lfm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009lfm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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