Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Jiquilillo in Nicaragua

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Jiquilillo in Nicaragua. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.02 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 11:01:53 / 11:01 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/05/16 / 2016-05-19 17:01:53 / May 19, 2016 @ 5:01 pm. Id of earthquake: us200064wy. Event ids that are associated: us200064wy. Exact location of event, longitude -87.7571 West, latitude 12.6031 North, depth = 33.02 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Posoltega, La Unión, Chirilagua (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Chichigalpa (c. 33 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Corinto (c. 19 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Puerto Morazán (c. 7 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 36 km WSW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-87.7571° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.6031° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33.02 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36km WSW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-19 17:01:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-16 22:07:39	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	211	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	0.696	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	173	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	us200064wy	Id of event.
Event Code	200064wy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200064wy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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