A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 121 km SSE of Punta de Burica, Panama (75 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100034zn. Id of event: us100034zn. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/08/15 / 2015-08-26 12:00:09 / August 26, 2015 @ 12:00 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 07:00:09 / 7:00 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -82.3684 West, latitude 7.0495 North, depth = 10 km.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 121 km SSE of Punta de Burica, Panama.
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