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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Tilaran in Costa Rica

Posted by admin on January 11, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.6134S, -84.9572WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Tilaran in Costa Rica. Unique identifier: us2000ciby. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ciby. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.56 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -84.9572° West, latitude 10.6134° North, depth = 13.56 km. The temblor was reported at 10:00:26 / 10:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/01/18 / 2018-01-11 16:00:26 / January 11, 2018 @ 4:00 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 53 km (33 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Puntarenas (c. 35 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from San José (c. 31 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Quesada (c. 27 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Chacarita (c. 26 400 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Cañas (c. 20 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Rafael (c. 17 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Atenas, Orotina, San Juan (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km N of Tilaran, Costa Rica. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -84.9572° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.6134° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km N 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 2018-01-11 16:00:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-11 21:46:00 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 0.279 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us2000ciby Id of event.
Event Code 2000ciby An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ciby, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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