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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Champerico in Guatemala


Earthquake location 14.1829S, -92.2214WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Champerico in Guatemala. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/02/21 / 2021-02-27 10:27:41 / February 27, 2021 @ 10:27 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000de4x. Id of event: us7000de4x. 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 36.74 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -92.2214 West, latitude 14.1829 North, depth = 36.74 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:27:41 / 10:27 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Mazatenango (c. 44 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from San Pablo Jocopilas (c. 20 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Nuevo San Carlos (c. 19 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Colomba (c. 19 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Antonio Suchitepéquez, Huehuetán, San Pablo Jocopilas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 35 km WSW of Champerico, Guatemala. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.2214° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.1829° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35 km WSW 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 2021-02-27 10:27:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-27 10:44:15 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 326 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 0.613 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 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 us7000de4x Id of event.
Event Code 7000de4x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000de4x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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