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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Canoas in Costa Rica


Earthquake location 8.5273S, -82.9414WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Canoas in Costa Rica. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 23.18 km (14 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -82.9414 West, latitude 8.5273 North, depth = 23.18 km. Global time and date of event 05/06/16 / 2016-06-05 21:20:30 / June 5, 2016 @ 9:20 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000628g. Id of event: us2000628g. The temblor was reported at 15:20:30 / 3:20 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Buenos Aires, Boquete, Las Lomas. Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (36 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Buenos Aires (c. 11 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Volcán (c. 11 200 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 fifteen 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km W of Canoas, Costa Rica. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.9414° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.5273° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km W of Canoas, 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 2016-06-05 21:20:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-05 21:38:52 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 312 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 0.081 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 us2000628g Id of event.
Event Code 2000628g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000628g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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