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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Masachapa in Nicaragua

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Masachapa in Nicaragua on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/04/18 / 2018-04-28 06:16:43 / April 28, 2018 @ 6:16 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000dtu7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dtu7. Exact location of event, longitude -86.531 West, latitude 11.6861 North, depth = 78.08 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 78.08 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:16:43 / 12:16 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 58 km (36 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Tipitapa (c. 127 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Granada (c. 89 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was León, San Juan del Sur, San Jorge (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 11 km S of Masachapa, Nicaragua.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-86.531° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.6861° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	78.08 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km S of Masachapa, Nicaragua	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-04-28 06:16:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-28 06:38:05	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	298	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	0.825	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	153	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	us1000dtu7	Id of event.
Event Code	1000dtu7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000dtu7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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