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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Jiquilillo in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on February 16, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.5039S, -87.6284WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Jiquilillo in Nicaragua. Global time and date of event 16/02/18 / 2018-02-16 01:03:28 / February 16, 2018 @ 1:03 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 19:03:28 / 7:03 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d303. Id of event: us2000d303. Exact location of event, depth 80.76 km, -87.6284° West, 12.5039° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 80.76 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Chichigalpa (c. 33 100 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Corinto (c. 19 200 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Somotillo (c. 15 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Somotillo, Chirilagua, El Triunfo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop).

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 three and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 32 km SW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.6284° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.5039° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km SW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-16 01:03:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-16 01:49:50 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 340 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 0.596 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us2000d303 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d303 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d303, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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