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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Puerto Morazan in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on June 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.8276S, -86.9542WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Puerto Morazan in Nicaragua. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -86.9542 West, latitude 12.8276 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us200063d6. Unique identifier: us200063d6. The temblor was picked up at 21:39:31 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/06/16 / 2016-06-10 03:39:31 / June 10, 2016 @ 3:39 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael del Norte, Ciudad Sandino, Nacaome (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Estelí (c. 96 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Chichigalpa (c. 33 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 23 km E of Puerto Morazan, Nicaragua.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.9542° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.8276° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km E of Puerto Morazan, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-10 03:39:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-10 04:17:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 47 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.6 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 385 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 0.16 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us200063d6 Id of event.
Event Code 200063d6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200063d6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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