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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Corinto in Nicaragua


Earthquake location 12.3466S, -87.325WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Corinto in Nicaragua. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:31:11 / 5:31 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -87.325 West, latitude 12.3466 North, depth = 61.99 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 61.99 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us100062l8. Unique identifier: us100062l8. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/07/16 / 2016-07-11 11:31:11 / July 11, 2016 @ 11:31 am.

Close country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Triunfo, Somotillo, Larreynaga. The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Chichigalpa (c. 33 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Nagarote (c. 26 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from La Paz Centro (c. 23 500 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km SW of Corinto, Nicaragua. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.325° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.3466° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SW of Corinto, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-11 11:31:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-11 11:57:30 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 284 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 0.439 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 104 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 us100062l8 Id of event.
Event Code 100062l8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100062l8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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