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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Tonosi in Panama


Earthquake location 7.4093S, -80.6466WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Tonosi in Panama. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/10/15 / 2015-10-31 18:14:47 / October 31, 2015 @ 6:14 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200041mi. Id of event: us200041mi. Exact location of event, depth 28.87 km, -80.6466° West, 7.4093° North. The temblor was picked up at 13:14:47 / 1:14 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.87 km (18 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pocrí, Aguadulce, Santiago de Veraguas. Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Santiago de Veraguas (c. 45 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Chitré (c. 44 000 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Aguadulce (c. 17 200 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Pocrí (c. 11 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Las Tablas (c. 8 600 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Los Santos (c. 6 000 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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: 21 km W of Tonosi, Panama.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.6466° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.4093° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km W of Tonosi, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-31 18:14:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-03 21:14:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 1.92 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us200041mi Id of event.
Event Code 200041mi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200041mi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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