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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Puerto Morazan in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on November 17, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.7751S, -87.3WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Puerto Morazan in Nicaragua on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 14:23:55 / 2:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -87.3° West, 12.7751° North, depth 149.68 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 149.68 km (93 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000bhzc. Event ids that are associated: us2000bhzc. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/10/17 / 2017-10-28 20:23:55 / October 28, 2017 @ 8:23 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Chichigalpa (c. 33 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Marcos de Colón, Nacaome, La Unión (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 16 km WSW of Puerto Morazan, Nicaragua.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.3° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.7751° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 149.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WSW of Puerto Morazan, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-28 20:23:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-17 02:53:06 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 271 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 0.256 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us2000bhzc Id of event.
Event Code 2000bhzc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bhzc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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