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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Golfito in Costa Rica


Earthquake location 8.5759S, -83.1333WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Golfito in Costa Rica on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 7.09 km, -83.1333° West, 8.5759° North. Id of earthquake: us20002wjc. Event ids that are associated: us20002wjc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.09 km (4 miles). The temblor was picked up at 05:46:09 / 5:46 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 10/07/15 / 2015-07-10 11:46:09 / July 10, 2015 @ 11:46 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mercedes, Las Lomas, Pedregal (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Buenos Aires (c. 11 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Volcán (c. 11 200 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km SSE of Golfito, Costa Rica. This information 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 -83.1333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.5759° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SSE of Golfito, Costa Rica Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-10 11:46:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-10 12:05:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 0.257 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us20002wjc Id of event.
Event Code 20002wjc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002wjc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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