Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Canoas in Costa Rica

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Canoas in Costa Rica. 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 23.27 km (14 miles). Exact location of event, depth 23.27 km, -82.8449° West, 8.6005° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003lpg. Id of event: us20003lpg. The temblor was picked up at 21:05:15 / 9:05 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/09/15 / 2015-09-19 03:05:15 / September 19, 2015 @ 3:05 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 Almirante, Buenos Aires, Las Lomas (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Buenos Aires (c. 11 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 7 km N of Canoas, Costa Rica.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-82.8449° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.6005° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.27 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km N of Canoas, 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	2015-09-19 03:05:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-19 03:30:31	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.3	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	299	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	0.247	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	114	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	us20003lpg	Id of event.
Event Code	20003lpg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003lpg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.4 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-82.8449° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

8.6005° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

23.27 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

7km N of Canoas, 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

2015-09-19 03:05:15

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2015-09-19 03:30:31

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-360

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

3.3

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

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

299

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.247

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.83 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

114

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us20003lpg

Id of event.

Event Code

20003lpg

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us20003lpg,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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