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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Puerto Armuelles in Panama

Posted by admin on February 11, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.1648S, -83.0133WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Puerto Armuelles in Panama on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 11.33 km, -83.0133° West, 8.1648° North. Unique identifier: us2000d0ik. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d0ik. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/02/18 / 2018-02-11 10:29:23 / February 11, 2018 @ 10:29 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.33 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:29:23 / 4:29 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Boquete, Volcán, Las Lomas. Nearby country/countries, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Volcán (c. 11 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Corredor (c. 7 100 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 20 km SW of Puerto Armuelles, Panama.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -83.0133° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.1648° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SW of Puerto Armuelles, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-11 10:29:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-11 10:44:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 433 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 0.389 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000d0ik Id of event.
Event Code 2000d0ik An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d0ik, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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