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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on September 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.1663S, -85.7656WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 85.95 km (53 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:35:14 / 7:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -85.7656° West, latitude 11.1663° North, depth = 85.95 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006n0u. Id of event: us10006n0u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 08/09/16 / 2016-09-08 13:35:14 / September 8, 2016 @ 1:35 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Granada (c. 89 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Diriamba (c. 35 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from San José (c. 31 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Rivas (c. 30 300 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Jinotepe (c. 29 500 pop). Close country/countries, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Concepción, Masaya, San Marcos.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km SE of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -85.7656° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.1663° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SE of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-08 13:35:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-08 14:08:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 326 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 0.479 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us10006n0u Id of event.
Event Code 10006n0u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006n0u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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