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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Jiquilillo in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on October 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.6778S, -87.8705WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Jiquilillo in Nicaragua on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 65.56 km, -87.8705° West, 12.6778° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000730b. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000730b. The temblor was picked up at 17:17:31 / 5:17 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 29/10/16 / 2016-10-29 23:17:31 / October 29, 2016 @ 11:17 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 65.56 km (41 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Chichigalpa (c. 33 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Lorenzo (c. 22 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Corinto (c. 19 200 pop). Close country/countries, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Lorenzo, La Alianza, San Rafael Oriente.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 fifty-eight 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: 46 km W of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.8705° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.6778° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km W of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-29 23:17:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-29 23:36:10 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 298 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 0.8 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 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 us1000730b Id of event.
Event Code 1000730b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000730b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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