A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Sardinal in Costa Rica. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.53 km (21 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:41:18 / 3:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 34.53 km, -86.216° West, 10.5179° North. Id of earthquake: us10002muv. Event ids that are associated: us10002muv. Global time and date of event 17/06/15 / 2015-06-17 21:41:18 / June 17, 2015 @ 9:41 pm UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nicoya, San Juan del Sur, Liberia. Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Nicoya (c. 15 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 12 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. 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: 62 km W of Sardinal, Costa Rica.
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