A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Masachapa in Nicaragua. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/08/16 / 2016-08-13 13:38:12 / August 13, 2016 @ 1:38 pm. The temblor was picked up at 07:38:12 / 7:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 46.05 km, -86.7455° West, 11.5919° North. Unique identifier: us10006dkg. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006dkg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 46.05 km (29 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tisma, León, Belén. Nearby country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Granada (c. 89 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Diriamba (c. 35 000 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from San Rafael del Sur (c. 29 800 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 33 km SW of Masachapa, Nicaragua.
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