Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 61 km WSW of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 61 kilometers (38 miles) from San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47.35 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000cpy1. Event ids that are associated: us2000cpy1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 08:47:21 / 8:47 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/01/18 / 2018-01-15 14:47:21 / January 15, 2018 @ 2:47 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -86.3641 West, latitude 10.9852 North, depth = 47.35 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nandaime, Santa Teresa, San Jorge (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Rivas (c. 30 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Nandaime (c. 20 800 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Jorge (c. 7 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Santa Teresa (c. 5 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Belén (c. 5 400 pop).

Every 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 four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 61 km WSW of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-86.3641° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.9852° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	61km WSW of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-15 14:47:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-29 20:02:23	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	284	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	0.801	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	177	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	us2000cpy1	Id of event.
Event Code	2000cpy1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000cpy1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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