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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Fortuna in Costa Rica

Posted by admin on July 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.6749S, -85.155WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Fortuna in Costa Rica on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:58:32 / 7:58 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005zjd. Id of event: us10005zjd. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/07/16 / 2016-07-03 01:58:32 / July 3, 2016 @ 1:58 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -85.155° West, latitude 10.6749° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Desamparados, Río Segundo, Naranjo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Puntarenas (c. 35 700 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from San José (c. 31 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Quesada (c. 27 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Chacarita (c. 26 400 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Cañas (c. 20 300 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from San Rafael (c. 17 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km E of Fortuna, Costa Rica. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -85.155° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.6749° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km E of Fortuna, 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 2016-07-03 01:58:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-03 02:17:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 435 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 0.43 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us10005zjd Id of event.
Event Code 10005zjd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005zjd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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