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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Nueva Gorgona in Panama

Posted by admin on February 20, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.292S, -79.2535WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Nueva Gorgona in Panama. The temblor was detected at 14:35:48 / 2:35 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.87 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/02/17 / 2017-02-20 19:35:48 / February 20, 2017 @ 7:35 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us20008ky6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008ky6. Exact location of event, depth 15.87 km, -79.2535° West, 8.292° North.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chepo, La Cabima, Alcaldedíaz (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Panamá (c. 408 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Miguelito (c. 321 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Tocumen (c. 88 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Arraiján (c. 76 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Las Cumbres (c. 69 100 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from La Chorrera (c. 61 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Pacora (c. 55 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop).

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. 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 have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 73 km ESE of Nueva Gorgona, Panama. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.2535° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.292° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km ESE of Nueva Gorgona, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-20 19:35:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-20 20:16:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 222 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 442 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 1.043 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us20008ky6 Id of event.
Event Code 20008ky6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008ky6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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