A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Puerto San Jose in Guatemala. Global time and date of event 21/05/20 / 2020-05-21 15:06:19 / May 21, 2020 @ 3:06 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:06:19 / 9:06 am (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, -90.9111° West, 13.2005° North, depth 52.58 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 52.58 km (33 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70009mie. Unique identifier: us70009mie.
The epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puerto San José (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop).
Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-five 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 80 km S of Puerto San Jose, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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