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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 38 km SW of Champerico, Guatemala


Earthquake location 14.0084S, -92.1207WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:56:18 / 6:56 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/10/20 / 2020-10-14 06:56:18 / October 14, 2020 @ 6:56 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000c86y. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c86y. Exact location, longitude -92.1207° West, latitude 14.0084° North, depth = 61.11 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61.11 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from San Pablo Jocopilas (c. 20 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Nuevo San Carlos (c. 19 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Colomba (c. 19 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Tiquisate (c. 18 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Pablo Jocopilas, San Antonio Suchitepéquez, Samayac (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-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. 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: 38 km SW of Champerico, Guatemala.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.1207° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.0084° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 km SW 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 2020-10-14 06:56:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-14 07:35:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.658 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us6000c86y Id of event.
Event Code 6000c86y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c86y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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