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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Ciudad Cortes in Costa Rica

Posted by admin on February 20, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.5741S, -83.6496WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Ciudad Cortes in Costa Rica. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:31:41 / 5:31 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.19 km (8 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/02/16 / 2016-02-20 11:31:41 / February 20, 2016 @ 11:31 am. Exact location, longitude -83.6496° West, latitude 8.5741° North, depth = 12.19 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10004rbq. Event ids that are associated: us10004rbq.

Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from San Isidro (c. 34 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Buenos Aires (c. 11 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Daniel Flores (c. 10 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Corredor (c. 7 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Golfito (c. 6 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Mercedes (c. 5 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto Armuelles, San Isidro, Daniel Flores. Nearby country/countries, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km SSW of Ciudad Cortes, Costa Rica. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -83.6496° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.5741° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km SSW of Ciudad Cortes, 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 2016-02-20 11:31:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-20 11:47:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 355 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 0.183 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us10004rbq Id of event.
Event Code 10004rbq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004rbq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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