A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Corinto in Nicaragua. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000b2q3. Event ids that are associated: us2000b2q3. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37.19 km (23 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/10/17 / 2017-10-08 03:38:46 / October 8, 2017 @ 3:38 am. Exact location, longitude -87.7978° West, latitude 12.0018° North, depth = 37.19 km. The temblor was detected at 21:38:46 / 9:38 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chinandega, El Viejo, El Realejo. Epicenter of the event was 101 km (62 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 101 km (62 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Corinto (c. 19 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from El Realejo (c. 6 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop).
Each 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 three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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