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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Corinto in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on March 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.1523S, -87.6382WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Corinto in Nicaragua. The epicenter was at a depth of 56.79 km (35 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -87.6382 West, latitude 12.1523 North, depth = 56.79 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 22:24:21 / 10:24 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004xan. Id of event: us10004xan. Global time and date of event 14/03/16 / 2016-03-14 04:24:21 / March 14, 2016 @ 4:24 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto Morazán, León, Posoltega. Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Chichigalpa (c. 33 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Corinto (c. 19 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Puerto Morazán (c. 7 700 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 two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 62 km SW of Corinto, Nicaragua.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.6382° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.1523° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km SW of Corinto, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-14 04:24:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-14 05:08:38 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 271 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 0.788 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us10004xan Id of event.
Event Code 10004xan An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004xan, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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