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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Santa Teresa in Nicaragua


Earthquake location 11.6878S, -86.187WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Santa Teresa in Nicaragua on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/01/17 / 2017-01-08 18:25:58 / January 8, 2017 @ 6:25 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10007s0v. Event ids that are associated: us10007s0v. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:25:58 / 12:25 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 118.68 km (74 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -86.187 West, latitude 11.6878 North, depth = 118.68 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Lorenzo, La Paz Centro, Nagarote. Close country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Tipitapa (c. 127 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Granada (c. 89 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Diriamba (c. 35 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Rivas (c. 30 300 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 thirty-two 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 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km SSE of Santa Teresa, Nicaragua. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.187° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.6878° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSE of Santa Teresa, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-08 18:25:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-08 20:03:21 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 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 0.912 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us10007s0v Id of event.
Event Code 10007s0v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007s0v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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