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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Masachapa in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on May 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.2079S, -86.6634WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Masachapa in Nicaragua on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 19:22:57 / 7:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/04/16 / 2016-04-22 01:22:57 / April 22, 2016 @ 1:22 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.96 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005kq0. Unique identifier: us20005kq0. Exact location of earthquake, -86.6634° West, 11.2079° North, depth 46.96 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Marcos, Belén, Nandaime (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Diriamba (c. 35 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from San Rafael del Sur (c. 29 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Jinotepe (c. 29 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Marcos (c. 23 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Nandaime (c. 20 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop). Close country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 66 km SSW of Masachapa, Nicaragua.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.6634° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.2079° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km SSW of Masachapa, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-22 01:22:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-12 22:46:22 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 284 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 1.068 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 us20005kq0 Id of event.
Event Code 20005kq0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005kq0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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