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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag strikes near Santa Teresa in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on January 3, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.7289S, -86.2978WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Santa Teresa in Nicaragua. Exact location of event, depth 109.08 km, -86.2978° West, 11.7289° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 109.08 km (68 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/01/20 / 2020-01-03 15:28:54 / January 3, 2020 @ 3:28 pm. The temblor was detected at 09:28:54 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70006u7m. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006u7m. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Camoapa, Juigalpa, Larreynaga (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Tipitapa (c. 127 200 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Granada (c. 89 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop), 110 km (68 miles) from Juigalpa (c. 54 700 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Diriamba (c. 35 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km W of Santa Teresa, Nicaragua. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.2978° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.7289° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km W of Santa Teresa, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-03 15:28:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-03 15:50:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.965 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 468 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 0.42 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006u7m Id of event.
Event Code 70006u7m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006u7m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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