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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Jaco in Costa Rica

Posted by admin on November 28, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.4494S, -84.5597WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Jaco in Costa Rica. Exact location of event, longitude -84.5597 West, latitude 9.4494 North, depth = 24.87 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bti0. Id of event: us2000bti0. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.87 km (15 miles). The temblor was reported at 10:06:06 / 10:06 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/11/17 / 2017-11-14 16:06:06 / November 14, 2017 @ 4:06 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Isidro, Río Segundo, Cot. Country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from San José (c. 335 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Francisco (c. 55 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Alajuela (c. 47 500 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Paraíso (c. 39 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Puntarenas (c. 35 700 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from San Isidro (c. 34 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Curridabat (c. 34 600 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km SSE of Jaco, Costa Rica. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -84.5597° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.4494° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SSE of Jaco, 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 2017-11-14 16:06:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-28 17:42:23 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 0.233 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us2000bti0 Id of event.
Event Code 2000bti0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bti0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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