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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Tubuala in Panama

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Tubuala in Panama on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -79.2907° West, 9.758° North, depth 10 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:21:41 / 6:21 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10004e9t. Event ids that are associated: us10004e9t. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/01/16 / 2016-01-13 23:21:41 / January 13, 2016 @ 11:21 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Panamá (c. 408 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from San Miguelito (c. 321 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Tocumen (c. 88 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Colón (c. 76 600 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Las Cumbres (c. 69 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Pacora (c. 55 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Panamá, San Miguelito, Colón. Country/countries that might be effected, Panama (c. 3 411 000 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 earthquakes 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: 38 km NW of Tubuala, Panama.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-79.2907° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.758° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38km NW of Tubuala, Panama	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-13 23:21:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-14 00:23:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	247	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	0.797	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	48	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10004e9t	Id of event.
Event Code	10004e9t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004e9t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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