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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Las Minas in Panama

Posted by admin on December 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.6503S, -80.8776WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Las Minas in Panama. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007zym. Id of event: us20007zym. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/12/16 / 2016-12-11 12:46:44 / December 11, 2016 @ 12:46 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -80.8776° West, 7.6503° North, depth 35 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:46:44 / 7:46 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Natá, Pocrí, Aguadulce. Event epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Santiago de Veraguas (c. 45 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Chitré (c. 44 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Aguadulce (c. 17 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Pocrí (c. 11 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Las Tablas (c. 8 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Soná (c. 7 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Los Santos (c. 6 000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km SW of Las Minas, Panama. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.8776° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.6503° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SW of Las Minas, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-11 12:46:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-11 13:04:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 1.824 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us20007zym Id of event.
Event Code 20007zym An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007zym, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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