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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 13 km SW of Jinotega, Nicaragua

Posted by admin on November 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.0166S, -86.098WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Jinotega in Nicaragua. Exact location of earthquake, -86.098° West, 13.0166° North, depth 20.04 km. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:06:49 / 5:06 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/11/16 / 2016-11-15 23:06:49 / November 15, 2016 @ 11:06 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: usa0014cef. Id of event: usa0014cef. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.04 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Somotillo, San Lorenzo, Waslala. Epicenter of the event was 22 km (14 miles) from Matagalpa (c. 109 100 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Estelí (c. 96 400 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Jinotega (c. 51 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Ocotal (c. 33 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Boaco (c. 29 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Somoto (c. 20 300 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km SW of Jinotega, Nicaragua. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.098° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0166° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SW of Jinotega, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-15 23:06:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-16 01:12:48 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 3.6 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 234 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 0.189 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID usa0014cef Id of event.
Event Code a0014cef An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usa0014cef, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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