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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Cardenas in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on June 8, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.29S, -85.5001WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Cardenas in Nicaragua. The temblor was picked up at 16:36:54 / 4:36 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/06/18 / 2018-06-08 22:36:54 / June 8, 2018 @ 10:36 pm. Id of earthquake: us1000elmq. Event ids that are associated: us1000elmq. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 184.43 km (115 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -85.5001 West, latitude 11.29 North, depth = 184.43 km.

Close country/countries, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Granada (c. 89 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Juigalpa (c. 54 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from San José (c. 31 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Rivas (c. 30 300 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Nandaime (c. 20 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Carlos (c. 13 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Niquinohomo, Santa Teresa, Juigalpa.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 two and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 10 km N of Cardenas, Nicaragua. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -85.5001° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.29° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 184.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km N of Cardenas, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-08 22:36:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-08 22:57:14 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 312 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 1.129 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us1000elmq Id of event.
Event Code 1000elmq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000elmq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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