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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Golfito in Costa Rica

Posted by admin on August 19, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.7322S, -83.1336WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Golfito in Costa Rica on Saturday. Event id: us1000gcsd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gcsd. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21.27 km (13 miles). Global time and date of event 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 02:20:33 / August 19, 2018 @ 2:20 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 20:20:33 / 8:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 21.27 km, -83.1336° West, 8.7322° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Isidro, Daniel Flores, Las Lomas (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Isidro (c. 34 900 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Buenos Aires (c. 11 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 10 km NNE of Golfito, Costa Rica.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -83.1336° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.7322° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NNE 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 2018-08-19 02:20:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-19 03:04:35 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 2.2 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 326 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 0.444 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us1000gcsd Id of event.
Event Code 1000gcsd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gcsd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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