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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Punta de Burica in Panama


Earthquake location 7.7941S, -82.4369WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Punta de Burica in Panama on Friday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/09/17 / 2017-09-09 01:15:42 / September 9, 2017 @ 1:15 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 20:15:42 / 8:15 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000arv3. Id of event: us2000arv3. Exact location of event, depth 13.81 km, -82.4369° West, 7.7941° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.81 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Concepción, Puerto Armuelles, Las Lomas. Close country/countries that might be effected, Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 54 km ESE of Punta de Burica, Panama.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.4369° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.7941° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km ESE of Punta de Burica, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-09 01:15:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-28 23:51:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 284 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 0.886 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us2000arv3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000arv3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000arv3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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