Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Tilaran in Costa Rica

Posted by admin on December 28, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.6132S, -84.8029WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Tilaran in Costa Rica on Thursday. Global time and date of event 28/12/17 / 2017-12-28 23:01:55 / December 28, 2017 @ 11:01 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 136.72 km (85 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -84.8029 West, latitude 10.6132 North, depth = 136.72 km. Unique identifier: us1000bxd1. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bxd1. The temblor was picked up at 17:01:55 / 5:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Heredia, San Francisco, Santiago (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 101 km (63 miles) from San Francisco (c. 55 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Alajuela (c. 47 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Puntarenas (c. 35 700 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from San José (c. 31 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Quesada (c. 27 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Chacarita (c. 26 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop).

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

Did you feel the quake?

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. 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: 23 km NE of Tilaran, Costa Rica.

Copyright © 2017 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -84.8029° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.6132° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 136.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NE of Tilaran, 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 2017-12-28 23:01:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-28 23:27:54 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 354 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 0.172 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us1000bxd1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000bxd1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bxd1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2024 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today