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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 24 km S of Somotillo, Nicaragua

Posted by admin on June 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.826S, -86.9033WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Somotillo in Nicaragua. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200063d2. Id of event: us200063d2. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/06/16 / 2016-06-10 03:28:06 / June 10, 2016 @ 3:28 am. The temblor was detected at 21:28:06 / 9:28 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 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, longitude -86.9033° West, latitude 12.826° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Managua, Carlos Fonseca Amador, Jinotega. Country/countries that might be effected, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Event epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Estelí (c. 96 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km S of Somotillo, Nicaragua. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.9033° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.826° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km S of Somotillo, 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 03:28:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-10 03:47:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 18 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 408 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 0.192 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us200063d2 Id of event.
Event Code 200063d2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200063d2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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