A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Puerto Morazan in Nicaragua. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us200064ut. Event ids that are associated: us200064ut. The temblor was detected at 15:42:32 / 3:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -86.972 West, latitude 12.793 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/06/16 / 2016-06-11 21:42:32 / June 11, 2016 @ 9:42 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (25 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Estelí (c. 96 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Chichigalpa (c. 33 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ciudad Darío, Condega, Somoto (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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