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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near La Paz Centro in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on January 2, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.2525S, -86.6812WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from La Paz Centro in Nicaragua. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:40:29 / 3:40 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -86.6812 West, latitude 12.2525 North, depth = 136.3 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/01/18 / 2018-01-02 09:40:29 / January 2, 2018 @ 9:40 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000byz2. Id of event: us1000byz2. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 136.3 km (85 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Tipitapa (c. 127 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Granada (c. 89 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Somotillo, Nandaime, Granada (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km S of La Paz Centro, Nicaragua. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.6812° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.2525° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 136.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km S of La Paz Centro, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-02 09:40:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-02 10:05:40 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 326 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 0.246 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us1000byz2 Id of event.
Event Code 1000byz2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000byz2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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