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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Puerto Escondido in Panama

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Puerto Escondido in Panama. Exact location, longitude -80.6341° West, latitude 9.2234° North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/04/16 / 2016-04-17 19:00:33 / April 17, 2016 @ 7:00 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us20005j9a. Event ids that are associated: us20005j9a. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:00:33 / 2:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto Pilón, Sabanitas, Cativá (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Colón (c. 76 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Cativá (c. 29 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Sabanitas (c. 12 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Penonomé (c. 12 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Puerto Escondido (c. 12 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Puerto Pilón (c. 5 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 60 km W of Puerto Escondido, Panama.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-80.6341° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.2234° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km W of Puerto Escondido, Panama	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-17 19:00:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-17 22:47:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	13	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.9	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	302	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	1.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	111	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	us20005j9a	Id of event.
Event Code	20005j9a	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005j9a,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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