Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Quepos in Costa Rica

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Quepos in Costa Rica on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32.5 km (20 miles). Exact location of event, depth 32.5 km, -84.1412° West, 9.3955° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/10/16 / 2016-10-25 22:35:47 / October 25, 2016 @ 10:35 pm. The temblor was detected at 16:35:47 / 4:35 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us100072qn. Ids that are associated to the event: us100072qn. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Buenos Aires, Esparza, San Ramón. Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from San José (c. 335 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Francisco (c. 55 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Alajuela (c. 47 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Paraíso (c. 39 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from San Isidro (c. 34 900 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Curridabat (c. 34 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop).

Each 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 4 km SE of Quepos, Costa Rica.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-84.1412° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.3955° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km SE of Quepos, Costa Rica	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-10-25 22:35:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-02 22:01:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3	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	286	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	0.457	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	135	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	us100072qn	Id of event.
Event Code	100072qn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100072qn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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