A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Masachapa in Nicaragua. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -86.8707 West, latitude 11.6977 North, depth = 53.23 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 53.23 km (33 miles). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:40:27 / 2:40 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/12/15 / 2015-12-16 20:40:27 / December 16, 2015 @ 8:40 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20004hma. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004hma.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chichigalpa, El Realejo, Posoltega (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Diriamba (c. 35 000 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Chichigalpa (c. 33 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from San Rafael del Sur (c. 29 800 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 40 km WSW of Masachapa, Nicaragua.
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