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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Corinto in Nicaragua

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Corinto in Nicaragua. Exact location of event, depth 46.24 km, -87.5835° West, 12.2598° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.24 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10006jjv. Event ids that are associated: us10006jjv. Global time and date of event 02/09/16 / 2016-09-02 05:03:35 / September 2, 2016 @ 5:03 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 23:03:35 / 11:03 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Chichigalpa (c. 33 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Corinto (c. 19 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Telica (c. 8 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Puerto Morazán (c. 7 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Telica, Puerto Morazán, León (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 50 km WSW of Corinto, Nicaragua. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-87.5835° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.2598° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46.24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	50km WSW 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	2016-09-02 05:03:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-02 05:18:17	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	312	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	0.678	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	186	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	us10006jjv	Id of event.
Event Code	10006jjv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006jjv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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