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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Jaco in Costa Rica

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Jaco in Costa Rica on Sunday. Event id: us1000bkin. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bkin. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -84.7941° West, latitude 9.3443° North, depth = 16.77 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.77 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/12/17 / 2017-12-03 08:44:29 / December 3, 2017 @ 8:44 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 02:44:29 / 2:44 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Puntarenas (c. 35 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Rafael Abajo (c. 27 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Chacarita (c. 26 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Tejar (c. 22 400 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from San Rafael (c. 17 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Esparza (c. 15 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Ana, San Ramón, Colón. Country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 34 km SSW of Jaco, Costa Rica.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-84.7941° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.3443° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34km SSW 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	2017-12-03 08:44:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-03 09:19:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	299	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	0.342	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	94	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000bkin	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bkin	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000bkin,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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