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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Sardinal in Costa Rica

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Sardinal in Costa Rica. Exact location of event, depth 48.79 km, -86.1872° West, 10.7244° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000bvm6. Unique identifier: us1000bvm6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 48.79 km (30 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:29:28 / 6:29 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/12/17 / 2017-12-24 12:29:28 / December 24, 2017 @ 12:29 pm.

Nearby country/countries, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Potosí, Belén, San Jorge (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Rivas (c. 30 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 12 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from San Jorge (c. 7 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Belén (c. 5 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 63 km WNW of Sardinal, Costa Rica.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-86.1872° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.7244° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	48.79 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	63km WNW of Sardinal, 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	2017-12-24 12:29:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-24 12:43:21	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	298	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	0.581	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	168	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	us1000bvm6	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bvm6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000bvm6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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