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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 53 km W of Sardinal, Costa Rica

Posted by admin on November 29, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.4842S, -86.134WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Sardinal in Costa Rica. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/11/15 / 2015-11-28 23:47:38 / November 28, 2015 @ 11:47 pm. The temblor was reported at 17:47:38 / 5:47 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100041yi. Event ids that are associated: us100041yi. Exact location of event, depth 27.05 km, -86.134° West, 10.4842° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27.05 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Nicoya (c. 15 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 12 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Juan del Sur, Nicoya, Liberia (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-four 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 53 km W of Sardinal, Costa Rica. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.134° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.4842° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km W of Sardinal, 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 2015-11-28 23:47:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-29 00:05:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 369 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 0.576 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 us100041yi Id of event.
Event Code 100041yi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041yi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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