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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Golfito in Costa Rica


Earthquake location 8.4406S, -83.1363WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Golfito in Costa Rica on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.87 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:09:00 / 5:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -83.1363° West, latitude 8.4406° North, depth = 18.87 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000g66r. Unique identifier: us1000g66r. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/08/18 / 2018-08-09 23:09:00 / August 9, 2018 @ 11:09 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Boquete, Buenos Aires, Las Lomas (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Buenos Aires (c. 11 700 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 one and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 22 km S of Golfito, Costa Rica. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -83.1363° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.4406° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km S of Golfito, Costa Rica Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-09 23:09:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-10 02:08:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 285 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 0.565 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us1000g66r Id of event.
Event Code 1000g66r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g66r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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