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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Sardinal in Costa Rica

Posted by admin on March 24, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.5557S, -86.1812WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Sardinal in Costa Rica. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/03/17 / 2017-03-17 14:40:03 / March 17, 2017 @ 2:40 pm. The temblor was reported at 08:40:03 / 8:40 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20008spi. Unique identifier: us20008spi. Exact location of event, longitude -86.1812 West, latitude 10.5557 North, depth = 30.62 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30.62 km (19 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nicoya, San Juan del Sur, Liberia (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Nicoya (c. 15 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 12 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 58 km W of Sardinal, Costa Rica.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.1812° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.5557° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km W of Sardinal, 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 2017-03-17 14:40:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-24 08:14:40 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 312 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 0.596 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us20008spi Id of event.
Event Code 20008spi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008spi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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