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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 71 km S of Puerto San José, Guatemala


Earthquake location 13.2849S, -90.859WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Puerto San José in Guatemala. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:22:21 / 1:22 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000d593. Event ids that are associated: us6000d593. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/01/21 / 2021-01-03 13:22:21 / January 3, 2021 @ 1:22 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -90.859° West, 13.2849° North, depth 35 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Taxisco (c. 6 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taxisco, La Gomera, Puerto San José.

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

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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: 71 km S of Puerto San José, Guatemala. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -90.859° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2849° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71 km S of Puerto San José, Guatemala Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-03 13:22:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-03 13:47:22 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 340 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 1.475 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us6000d593 Id of event.
Event Code 6000d593 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d593, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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